" Awareness of The Rural Family with The Procedures and Instructions of The Ministry of Health to Prevent The Corona Virus(Covid 19) in New Valley Governorate, Egypt"

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1 Department of Rural Society and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, New Valley University

2 Rural Sociology & Agricultural Extension Department, Faculty of Agriculture, New Valley University

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This research aimed to study the awareness of the rural family about the procedures and instructions of the Ministry of Health to prevent the Corona virus Covid 19 in New Valley Governorate.  The research was carried out on all  governorate districts: Kharga, Dakhla, Balat, Paris and Farafra. A village was randomly selected from each of the governorate districts  namely Palestine village, Sahwa village, Al-Zayat village, Jeddah village, Sheikh Marzouk village. The Size of the research sample in the five villages comprises 278 respondents. Data were collected by personal interview questionnaire during November and December 2021. Percentages, frequency distribution and weighted average were used to present and describe the research data, and Spearman’s correlation coefficient for ranks was used to determine the relationship between the search variables by SPSSV. 22. Results indicated that: 79.1% of the respondents had a high level of awareness of the Ministry of Health’s measures to prevent the Corona virus. 81.6% of the respondents  had a high level of awareness of the Ministry of Health’s instructions to prevent Corona virus. Watching television ranked first for information sources from which respondents derive their information about the emerging coronavirus with a weighted average of 2.94. The respondents' awareness of the Ministry of Health's procedures to prevent coronavirus were positively correlated with the  age, number of family members, degree of health, Leadership, the degree of participation in organizations, Educational Status and thoe respondents, awareness of the Ministry of Health’s instructions to prevent coronavirus were positively correlated with age, number of family members, degree of cultural openness, Educational Status and degree of participation in organizations.
 

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