Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards COVID-19 among primary school students in Hubei Province, China. (January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xue, Qi; Xie, Xinyan; Liu, Qi; Zhou, Yu; Zhu, Kaiheng; Wu, Hao; Wan, Zihao; Feng, Yanan; Meng, Heng; Zhang, Jiajia; Zuo, Pengxiang; Song, Ranran
• Is Part Of: Children and youth services review. Volume 120(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-01
• Subjects: COVID-19 -- Primary students -- Knowledge -- Attitudes -- Practices; Social work with children -- Periodicals; Social work with youth -- Periodicals; Adolescent -- Periodicals; Child Welfare -- Periodicals; Social Work -- Periodicals; Service social aux enfants -- Périodiques; Service social à la jeunesse -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 362.705
• DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105735
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0190-7409

Abstract

Highlights: Primary students had good awareness, optimistic attitudes, and appropriate practices on COVID-19. Mental health problems were associated with lower scores of knowledge, attitudes, and practices. Some specific practices still needed to be enhanced. Abstract: This study was aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) towards coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among school-aged children in the Hubei province when children were being confined to their homes. The questionnaire included questions of KAP about COVID-19, depressive and anxiety symptoms scales. Multivariable generalized linear regressions models were applied to estimate the unstandardized regression coefficients (β) of KAP. The awareness rates about COVID-19 were 70.1%–99.5% for all 1650 valid questionnaires. 37.2% of the participants quite worried about being infected with COVID-19. Approximately 96% of them washed hands in certain situations, while 85.6% of them washed hands after coughing or sneezing. Compared to the students without depressive symptoms, those who had depressive symptoms scored lower of total KAP, knowledge, attitudes, and practice. The findings suggest that primary students had a relatively good awareness of COVID-19 during the epidemic, as well as optimistic attitudes and appropriate practices. However, some items of appropriate practices still needed to be enhanced.