Health Extension Needs of Rural Women at Kafr El-Sheikh Governorat

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension Branch, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kafrelsheikh

2 Department of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Extension Branch, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tanta

Abstract

This research aims mainly to identify the factors affecting the health advisory needs of rural women in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate, and this is achieved by identifying the current status of the respondents with regard to some of their distinctive characteristics, and identifying the level of knowledge and implementation needs of the respondents with health advisory recommendations, and identifying some factors Linked to and specifics of the degree of knowledge and implementation needs of the respondents with the health advisory recommendations, based on the findings of the research. The governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh was chosen to conduct this research, and this governorate of Kafr El-Sheikh includes ten administrative centers, and the Sidi center was chosen randomly, and a village was chosen from among the villages of the center, and the random selection resulted in the village of Abu Ghanima, and the sample size was determined using the Chrisji and Morgan equation. The sample size is 143 respondents, and they were chosen in a systematic random manner, and the research reached a set of results, the most important of which are: That 89.5% of the research sample have a high and medium knowledge and implementation need, and that about 84% of the respondents have a cognitive advisory need ranging from medium to high with regard to recommendations related to family health, and that nearly 85% of them have a medium and high cognitive advisory need in relation to the special recommendations In housing health, and that 87.5% represented the two categories of medium and high cognitive extension need in relation to environmental health recommendations, and that 86% of the respondents had an operational advisory need ranging between medium and high with regard to family health practices, and that about 80% of them had an average cognitive extension need And high with respect to home health practices, and 89.5% represented the medium and high implementation extension need categories in relation to environmental health recommendations.

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