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Table 1 Grade and Gender of the respondents by school category

From: 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?

Primary schools

HSA (n = 510)

Non-HPS (n = 676)

P.4

165(32.4%)

228 (33.7%)

P.5

168(32.9%)

217 (32.1%)

P.6

177(34.7%)

231 (34.2%)

Boy

242(47.6%)

359 (53.3%)

Girl

266(52.4%)

315 (46.7%)

Secondary schools

HSA (n = 789)

Non-HPS (n = 725)

S.1

260(33.0%)

217 (29.9%)

S.2

273(34.6%)

260 (35.9%)

S.3

256(32.4%)

248 (34.2%)

Boy

367(46.9%)

308 (42.6%)

Girl

415(53.1%)

415 (57.4%)

  1. (Note: A minority of the students missed filling in their demographic data)
  2. HSA: awarded schools in the HSA Scheme
  3. Non-HPS schools are those not in the HSA scheme and whose teachers did not attend any training in HPS or diplomas
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