Objective To understand the knowledge of rural residents′disaster response in Hunan Province and the need of disaster response knowledge and skills training. Methods A cluster sampling method was used to randomly select 10 rural communities in Hunan Province. Residents of rural communities were selected as research objects. A total of 350 people were interviewed anonymously and face-to-face and were analyzed by SPSS18.0 statistical software. Results The overall disaster response knowledge correct rate was 33.12% (102/308) in rural community residents of Hunan Province, the highest score was "for resuscitation emergency resuscitation measures should be immediately implemented"89.61%(276/308), the lowest score was" rescue of residents in the disaster area of prime time was "only 10.06%(31/308), the average score was 10.16 ± 2.91. Conclusions Rural residents should improve the correctness of disaster response knowledge, strengthen the popularization of disaster response knowledge, and meet the skills training of the rural residents disaster response.

Objective:To understand the attitudes and behaviors status of injury prevention among urban residents' injury prevention in Changsha City and to provide evidence for urban residents' injury prevention.Methods:A stratified random sampling was conducted to extract 504 residents from 8 communities in 2 urban districts of Changsha City. The questionnaires were distributed on-site, and 420 valid questionnaires were got.Results:The attitudes and behavioral scores of urban residents' injury prevention were 43.35±14.29 and 38.92±3.75, while the agreement rate regarding injury prevention attitudes was 76.63% and the compliance rate of injury prevention behaviors was 43.10%. The scores of injury prevention behaviors among urban residents with different ages, family annual income, exercise frequency, and frequency of injuries were different ( F values were 2.815, 4.740, 4.153, P<0.05). There were differences in the scores of injury prevention attitudes among the residents of different ages, education background, and frequency of injuries ( F values were 3.030-8.162, P<0.01 or 0.05). Conclusion:The residents ′ attitude towards injury prevention was positive and the compliance rate of injury prevention behavior among urban residents in Changsha is low. Both injury prevention attitudes and behaviors differed in the residents with different backgrounds.