OCCUPATION AND HEALTH ›› 2026, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (20): 2857-2865.

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Cross-sectional survey on the knowledge,attitudes,and practices regarding drinking water among community residents in four cities in 2025

ZHANG Mingxue1, YE Dan1, PAN Lijun1, YAN Xu1, LIANG Jinfeng1, WANG Jiao1,2()   

  1. 1 China CDC Key Laboratory of Environment and Population HealthNational Institute of Environmental Health,Chinese Center for Disease Control and PreventionBeijing 100021, China
    2 National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious DiseasesNational Institute of Environmental Health,Chinese Center for Disease Control and PreventionBeijing 100021, China
  • Received:2025-11-06 Revised:2026-01-13 Online:2026-10-15 Published:2026-09-14
  • Contact: WANG Jiao,E-mail:wangjiao@nieh.chinacdc.cn

Abstract:

Objective To investigate the knowledge,attitude,and practice(KAP) levels and its influencing factors regarding drinking water among community residents in four cities of China:Ganzhou,Qingdao,Shenzhen,and Beijing,in order to provide a basis for guiding residents to form a scientific drinking water attitude and self-management behavior. Methods In June 2025,stratified random sampling was conducted on community residents in four cities. A questionnaire survey was conducted on 1 195 permanent community residents to investigate their demographics,KAP levels,and preferences for health information acquisition channels on drinking water,and the data were analyzed. Results The overall KAP score towards drinking water among the surveyed subjects in the four cities was 33.63%,with scores for knowledge,attitude,and practice dimensions being 30.22%,42.81%,and 33.72%,respectively. Beijing residents had the highest overall KAP score(49.11%),followed by Shenzhen(42.24%),Qingdao(23.86%),and Ganzhou(18.96%). Age,educational level,occupation,presence of family members with cardiovascular diseases,and participation in drinking water health education activities were all influencing factors(all P<0.05). The overall KAP level showed a gradient of decreasing with age and increasing with educational attainment. Specifically,residents aged 60-<70 years had only 0.317 times the odds of high KAP compared to those aged 15-<25 years(OR=0.317),while those with a bachelor's degree or above had 4.749 times the odds compared to those with primary education or less(OR=4.749). For acquiring health information on drinking water,new media was the most preferred channel(76.34%),followed by offline interactions(65.05%) and traditional media(58.78%). Conclusion The overall KAP level regarding drinking water among the residents in four cities is relatively low,especially in the dimensions of knowledge and behavior,where there is still significant room for improvement. Attention should be paid to the elderly and less-educated populations,building a diversified and three-dimensional health communication system that utilizes new media as the primary channel,integrated with offline and traditional media,to enhance health literacy level of residents' drinking water.

Key words: Community residents, Drinking water, Knowledge, attitude and practice, Cross-sectional study, Influencing factors, Communication channels

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