Abstract
Background
The knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) toward the COVID-19 and popular information media of the public is unclear in the late pandemic. The objective of this study was to evaluate the Chinese residents’ KAP and its influencing factors related to preventive practices, to inquiry the effective media.
Methods
A quick cross-sectional online survey was conducted in China in November 2022 via a self-designed questionnaire mainly through WeChat application for 2 weeks.
Results
The data of 1469 valid participants were analyzed. Most respondents have a relatively comprehensive knowledge, positive attitude, and good practice about COVID-19. The results show that the age, education background, monthly income, occupation, knowledge, and attitude toward COVID-19 were related to one’s preventive practice. As to media for effective epidemic prevention and control information, the proportion of new media such as WeChat, Tiktok, etc., is rising among residents, but learning from TV or the community are still major ways for older respondents.
Conclusion
These results suggested that we should still enhance the publicity of prevention knowledge toward COVID-19 through different media for different crowds, so as to facilitate a smooth transition in the late Omicron pandemic. Our study supplemented the Chinese residents’ KAP of personal prevention in the later period of the pandemic, providing more accurate information for subsequent policy formulation and implementation.
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This work was supported by the Social Development Project of Jiangsu Province (BE2017620, BE2022682) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20221196). The funder of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report.
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XL Ye, WL Tan, and Y Zhang conceived and designed the study, analyzed the data, contributed the regents and materials, drafted the manuscript, and revised the manuscript. J Gan and Y Liu analyzed the data, drafted the manuscript, and revised the manuscript. ZQ Li and AM Liao collected the data, drafted the manuscript, and revised the manuscript. JZ Li, YT Li, SM Wu, YF Zhang, Y Li, LZ Zhao, P Wang, Y Huang, and LL Ai collected the data. All authors contributed to the manuscript and approved the submitted version.
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Ye, XL., Gan, J., Liu, Y. et al. A quick online cross-sectional study of knowledge, attitude, practice, and information media toward the Omicron pandemic in China. J Public Health (Berl.) (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-023-01979-1
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