Abstract: Objective To investigate and analyze the cognition level, behavior and health education needs of non-medical personnel on COVID-19 in Fuling District, Chongqing City and to provide theoretical basis for improving the quality and effect of health education. Methods From 00：00 to 24：00 on March 6, 2020, the cognition, behavior and health education needs of non-medical personnel in Fuling District were investigated by snowball sampling and convenience sampling, and SPSS 26.0 software was used for Chi-square test and binary Logistic stepwise regression analysis. Results In this survey, 12 980 valid questionnaires were collected. The ratio of urban to rural population surveyed was 2.19∶1, and the ratio of male to female was 1∶1.90. The age of the respondents was mainly 37-55 years old, accounting for 67.55%。 54.95% of the respondents had high cognitive level and 64.48% had good behavior. Logistic regression analysis showed that the cognitive level of urban group （OR=1.372）, female group （OR=1.256）, high school or junior college （OR=1.977）, undergraduate and above group （OR=3.149）, civil servant group and public institution group （OR=1.284）, teacher group （OR=1.530） was high; female group （OR=1.114）, high school or junior college （OR=1.217）, undergraduate and above group （OR=1.225）, family medical staff group （OR=1.213）, high cognitive group （OR=1.968） performed well. The respondents obtained health education information mainly through Wechat（90.49%）, network media（87.55%）, and television （82.56%）. The needs for disease knowledge （85.40%）, preventive measures （84.53%） and control and prevention measures （78.71%） were higher. Conclusion In the first-level response to this COVID-19 public health emergency, the non-medical personnel’s cognitive level and behavioral performance need to be further improved. In the future health education work, the population in rural areas, people with low education background and students should be regarded as the key population of health education work

Key words: COVID-19, Non-medical personnel, Cognition, Behavior, Health education need