Can the concept of Health Promoting Schools help to improve students' health knowledge and practices to combat the challenge of communicable diseases: Case study in Hong Kong?

Table 3 Students' perception of school health policy

	HSA	Non-HPS	p value
1. Schools encourage face mask wearing when URTI
Primary	88.4% (450/509)	88.0% (595/676)	0.84
Secondary	86.8%(681/785)	80.4% (582/724)	0.001
2. Schools tell student to stay away from school when URTI
Primary	96.7% (491/508)	95.5% (644/674)	0.34
Secondary	93.6%(737/787)	90.1% (652/724)	0.01
3. Schools mention hygiene charter website
Primary	30.6% (156/509)	30.8% (207/671)	0.94
Secondary	28.1% (221/786)	15.3% (111/724)	<0.001

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