Factors Influencing Preventive COVID-19 Practices of Primary School Teachers in Aojiang Town, China

Abstract

The aims of this research are to examine preventive COVID-19 practices and identify related factors to primary school teachers’ preventive COVID-19 practices during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aojiang town, China. The sample size was calculated, a total of 300 primary school teachers from a total of 547 teachers from the 8 primary schools was selected by proportional stratified random sampling. A cross-sectional survey study was employed for the research. The questionnaire was tested for validity by 3 experts with IOC more than 0.5 and reliability by 30 secondary school teachers with Chronbach’s alpha of 0.84. Data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, t-test and multiple regressions by SPSS. The findings were the high preventive COVID-19 practices of teachers. The factors influencing preventive COVID-19 practices were the perception and social support of teachers. The recommendations were as follow: schools should promote preventive COVID-19 practices to make perceptions. The school, community and family should support teachers for preventive COVID-19 practices.