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Rural Family Practices to Confront the COVID-19 Crisis A case Study of a Village in Qalubiya Governorate

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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This research aimed to identify the degree of implementation of rational practices (DIRP) by rural family to Confront COVID-19 crisis (RFCC), the significance of relationship between DIRP by RFCC and the studied independent variables, identify information sources of rural family about COVID-19, Identify obstacles facing rural family to face that crisis, and proposed solutions to overcome these obstacles. Data were collected during August 2020, in Sanafeer Village, in Qalubiya Governorate, Through a personal interviews with a simple random sample of 96 respondents, by pretested Questionnaire, results are as follows: 1. 66.7% of the respondents' families have a (high) DIRP by RFCC, while 19.8% of the respondents' families have a (medium) DIRP by RFCC, and 13.5% of the respondents' families have a (low) DIRP by RFCC, 2. Statistically significant relationships were found between DIRP by RFCC and: Age, degree of exposure to mass media, degree of tendency towards preserving the environment, total monthly spending, size of agricultural holdings (at level 0.05), number of years of formal education, and degree of rationalization of consumption (at level 0.01), With Pearsonian correlation coefficient values (0.202, 0.231, 0.226, 0.243, 0.218, 0.294, and 0.271) respectively, 3. Social media, relatives and neighbors are the most important information sources of rural family about COVID-19, 4. decrease in income due to unemployment of some family members resulting from crisis is one of the most important obstacles facing rural family to confront the Covid-19crisis.                                                                                                                                              

DOI

10.21608/asejaiqjsae.2021.147402

Keywords

Rural family, COVID-19, and Coronavirus

Authors

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Ehab Abd El- Khalek

Last Name

Mohamed Heikal

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Department of Rural Sociology and Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University

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dr_ehab_heikal@yahoo.com

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42

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JANUARY- MARCH

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20854

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2021-01-01

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2021-01-05

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2021-03-31

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137

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160

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1110-0176

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2536-9784

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Alexandria Science Exchange Journal

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Rural Family Practices to Confront the COVID-19 Crisis A case Study of a Village in Qalubiya Governorate

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22 Jan 2023