A Study of Prevention Behaviors of Avian influenzaand Related Factors among Students in Higher Grades of Tai-chung Elementary School

• Main Author: Shi Hui Qi
• Other Authors: Department of Healthcare Administration/Healthcare Division
• Language: English
• Published: Asia University 2007
• Subjects: Avian Flu; health belief; behavior of infectious diseases; Avian flu
• Online Access: http://asiair.asia.edu.tw/ir/handle/310904400/3281; http://asiair.asia.edu.tw/ir/bitstream/310904400/3281/1/; http://asiair.asia.edu.tw/ir/bitstream/310904400/3281/2/3281.doc

Along with the shortening of the world distance and more frequent international communication, the speed and the range of infectious diseases spreading have been greatly accelerated, and it indeed evoked people to pay attention to the infectious diseases and emphasize it. To prevent to recommit the same error of SARS, the main purpose of the study is to comprehend how students in the higher grades of elementary schools react to preventative behavior of the Avian Flu and to analyze relative factors of the influence of precautionary measures. We used the questionnaire designed by ourselves which was tested by reliability and validity, and tested 614 students who were higher grades of elementary school by purposive sampling method. Collected data were analyzed by t-test, one-way ANOVA and Pearson correlation statistical methods, to discuss the difference in students had differ background faced to the Avian Flu and the difference of the preventive behavior. The study has the following results: (1) The basic knowledge and cognition of Avian Flu in students must to be emphasized, but the beliefs to face the Avian Flu is cheerful. (2) In the preventive behavior, when the first student arrived to the classroom, most of the students would not open the windows to make the air circulating; when students got a cold, most of them would not wear a mask either. It showed the preventive behavior must to be emphasized. (3) On washing hand, most of the students have good habit to wash hands. It means that the schools popularize how to wash hands well. But according to the perceived barriers, we found that if the students didn??t wash hands surely, the reasons were the public place didn??t provide the soap or hand wash, or the students felt the soap was too dirty to use in public place. (4) The cognition of the garbage can could be the contagium must to be emphasized, and the authority must cogitate. (5) On the scores of the knowledge, senior students get higher points than juniors??; but on the one hand of preventive behavior, ...