Social Awareness of Rural People with the Covid-19 (A Field Study in the Villages of Bandar Toukh in Qalyubia Governorate and Abshway Village in Fayoum Governorate) | ||||
| Arab Universities Journal of Agricultural Sciences | ||||
| Article 112, Volume 28, Issue 4, December 2020, Page 949-969 PDF (679.98 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ajs.2020.42763.1259 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
Rabab SA Mohammed  1; heba mohamed 2
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| 1Agricultural Economic and Extension Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Banha Univ., Egypt | ||||
| 2Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension Dept., Faculty of Agriculture, Ain shams University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| This research aimed to determine the level of social awareness of the covid-19 in the rural Egypt in the villages of Bandar Toukh in Qalyubia Governorate and the village of Ibshway in Fayoum Governorate, by identifyed the level of social awareness of the covid-19 among rural people in the two study villages, and identifyed some social variables affected on social awareness of covid-19, Finally, identifyed the differences in the level of awareness of the covid-19 in the two villages of the study, the research was based on the social survey method by created an electronic questionnaire for the respondents on a number of large groups of the two study villages, where the research applied the field study on a sample of 200 rural people, included 100 individuals from “Bandar Toukh” village in Qalyubia governorate, and 100 individuals from “Abshway” village in Fayoum governorate. the results showed that 54% of the respondents are in the category of low social awareness , 27% of them are in the category of medium social awareness, and 19% of them are in category of high social awareness of Coronavirus, and the study also showed that there are statistically significant differences between the mean ranks of the social awareness in the two villages, as the value of Z (- 5.78) with a probability value of 0.00, and the most important sources from which the rural respondents derive their information about the covid-19 are: Watching TV (69.5%), comments and videos On social media (53.5%), and the official website of the Egyptian Ministry of Health (46.5%),and there were significant differences between the four averages of the educational status of the researcher in the social awareness of the covid-19 , as the value of chi-squared (2 149.922) and the value of Sig (0.000), as it was found that the individual’s education Positively affected his level of social awareness of the covid-19. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Social awareness; Coronavirus; Level of awareness; Covid-19; sources of knowledge | ||||
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