Knowledge of COVID-19 and its prevention among rural residents in Fuqing, China.
Xiaojun Liu, Shanshan Du, Ruimei Feng and 3 others
PMID 35251749WHAT IT FOUND
Rural residents knew less about what COVID-19 was than how to protect themselves.
Older age, lower education and income were linked to poorer COVID-19 knowledge; lower education was linked to poorer self-protection knowledge.
Key findings
01Mean knowledge of COVID-19 was 5.53 of 12 points, while mean self-protection knowledge was 10.34 of 12 points.
02Older age was linked to lower knowledge of COVID-19, but not to self-protection knowledge.
03Lower education and income were linked to poorer knowledge of COVID-19; higher education was linked to better self-protection knowledge.
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What it does not show
The survey used convenience sampling in one coastal city in southeast China, so it may not represent other rural or urban populations. It was cross-sectional, so it can show which groups had lower knowledge at one time point but cannot show what caused those differences. Knowledge was collected through interview questions, and the study did not measure attitudes or actual protective practices. The study did not compare urban and rural residents, so it cannot say whether rural areas differed from nearby urban areas.
Declared interests
Funded by Fujian Medical University grants. The authors declared no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as proof that public health education improved residents' behaviour. It measured only knowledge, not attitudes or practices, and a cross-sectional survey cannot show that any intervention caused the scores.