ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Tuberc.

Sec. Epidemiology of Tuberculosis

Volume 3 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/ftubr.2025.1587839

Assessment of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding TB prevention and treatment among college students in Wuhan,central China

Provisionally accepted
Gang  WuGang Wu1Quan  ChaoQuan Chao1Aiping  YuAiping Yu2Jun  ChenJun Chen1Zhengbin  ZhangZhengbin Zhang1*yun  yangyun yang3Guiyang  WangGuiyang Wang1Zhouqin  LuZhouqin Lu1Xiaojun  WangXiaojun Wang1Qionghong  DuanQionghong Duan1Haoze  ZhangHaoze Zhang1Jing  HuJing Hu4*li  lili li3
  • 1Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan, China
  • 2Dongxihu Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, wuhan, China
  • 3Hongshan Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, Wuhan, China
  • 4Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Yangtze River Navigation Administration, Wuhan, China

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Tuberculosis (TB) is recognized as serious public health concerns in many developing countries. As the new main force and inheritors of national health construction, college students bear the important social responsibilities and missions of practicing tuberculosis prevention and control, volunteer mobilization, and health concept dissemination Improving college students' health literacy is crucial to the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. This study aims to assess college students' knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) about tuberculosis prevention and treatment in Wuhan,China.A descriptive cross-sectional study survey among college students was conducted from May to June in 2022 in 22 colleges by judgment sampling method in 删除[freeman]:

Keywords: 3.05, 3.17 and 3.24, respectively Tuberculosis, Students, college, KAP, influencing factor

Received: 06 Mar 2025; Accepted: 14 Jul 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Wu, Chao, Yu, Chen, Zhang, yang, Wang, Lu, Wang, Duan, Zhang, Hu and li. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence:
Zhengbin Zhang, Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital, Wuhan Institute for Tuberculosis Control, Wuhan, China
Jing Hu, Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Yangtze River Navigation Administration, Wuhan, China

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