Rural Women’s Awareness of The Dangers of some Negative Daily Practices on Human Health in one of The Villages of Kafr El Dawar Center, Beheira Governorate

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Home Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, El Shatby

2 Agricultural Extension and Rural Development Research Institute, Alexandria Branch

Abstract

The research aimed mainly to identifying the level of awareness of rural women about the dangers of some negative daily practices on human health by achieving the following goals: Identifying some of the family and personal characteristics of the respondents, determining the general level of some negative daily practices of the respondents in the research area, determining the general level of the respondents ’awareness of some risks Negative daily practices on humans in the research area, studying the correlational relations between each of the respondents ’general awareness of the dangers of some negative daily practices on humans on the one hand and each of the independent variables studied on the other hand.
This research was conducted in Al-Wastaniya village, Kafr Al-Dawar Center, Al-Buhaira Governorate, where the size of the random sample of shells was 200 surveyed by 10% of the total. Tabular presentation, frequencies, percentages, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Chi square and Pearson's simple correlation coefficient were used in the presentation and analysis of results.
The most important research results:
1 - More than a quarter of the sample is illiterate, and read and write, at a rate of 34.5%.
2- More than half of the respondents have a good performance of negative practices related to methods and places of food preservation and storage, by 50.5%.
3- The majority of respondents, 87.5%, fall into the categories of weak and moderate awareness of health risks to humans associated with performing some negative practices related to some transactions inside the home.
4- The existence of an inverse correlation between the age of the respondent, the age of the husband, the number of years of marriage, and the level of general awareness of the health risks to humans associated with performing some negative practices related to some transactions inside the home.

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