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 5 Literacy on health and hygiene

	HSA	Non-HPS	p value
1. Health knowledge scores (mean ± SD)
Primary	12.13+2.45	11.58+2.82	<0.001
Secondary	12.40+2.44	12.41+2.69	0.95
2. get health info from teachers (very much or quite a lot)
Primary	86.7% (441/509)	84.2%(568/674)	0.25
Secondary	69.4% (546/786)	68.7%(498/725)	0.74
3. Get health info from classmates (very much or quite a lot)
Primary	39.4% (200/508)	38.8%(260/671)	0.83
Secondary	28.4% (223/786)	26.6%(193/725)	0.45
4. Get health Information from ambassador (very much or quite a lot)
Primary	32.8% (165/503)	17.7%(119/673)	<0.001
Secondary	19.0% (149/785)	10.5% (76/720)	<0.001
5. Get health info from media (very much or quite a lot)
Primary	46.5% (236/507)	43.2%(291/673)	0.002
Secondary	48.5% (380/783)	49.8%(360/724)	0.64
6. Get health info from pamphlets (very much or quite a lot)
Primary	52.3% (265/507)	46.2%(311/674)	0.04
Secondary	36.5% (287/786)	27.3%(197/722)	<0.001
7. Get health info from website (very much or quite a lot)
Primary	42.3% (215/508)	44.9%(303/674)	0.37
Secondary	20.3% (160/786)	19.7%(143/724)	0.77

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