Rural Women's Awareness of the Rural Home Environment Risks in Kafrelsheikh Governorate

El-sbeay, Frag Mohamed; Elhamoly, Adel Ibraheam; Ragab, Ehab Abdelmoneam

doi:10.21608/alexja.2024.329724.1100

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	Rural Women's Awareness of the Rural Home Environment Risks in Kafrelsheikh Governorate "مستوى وعي الريفيات بمخاطر البيئة الريفية المنزلية بمحافظة كفرالشيخ"
Article 7, Volume 69, Issue 4, December 2024, Page 501-529 PDF (8.71 MB)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/alexja.2024.329724.1100
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Authors
Frag Mohamed El-sbeay ¹; Adel ibraheam Elhamoly²; Ehab abdelmoneam Ragab³
¹Agricultural Economic and Social Science - Agricultural Faculty - Damietta University
²Agriculture Faculty - kafer elsheikh University
³Agriculture Faculty- Suez Canal university
Receive Date: 20 October 2024, Revise Date: 06 November 2024, Accept Date: 09 November 2024
Abstract
The research aims to identify rural women’s awareness of the rural home environment risks in Kafrelsheikh Governorate. Two districts were randomly selected by the basket; they were Kafrelsheikh and El-Burullus. In the same way, a village was selected from each districts, they were Shenno village and El-Shahabiya. The number of female heads of households was 5,017. A simple random sample of 3% was taken, consisting of 150 (60 and 90 respectively). Data were collected from them through a personal questionnaire. Some statistical tools were used to analyze the research data. The most important results were: Only 40% of the respondents had a high overall awareness of the rural home environment risks, while about 59%, 38% and about 35% of them had a high awareness of the health, food and housing risks, respectively. Six independent variables were explain approximately 50% of the variance in their awareness of the rural home environment risks: number of knowledge sources (25.3%), openness to the outside world (6.5%), poultry ownership (5.5%), animal ownership (5.4%), leadership (4.6%), and satisfaction with life in the village (2.4%). It turned out that the most important ways they deal with these risks were: ensuring and constantly monitoring the personal hygiene of family members about 97%; avoiding the use of contaminated, industrial, and expired water and foods about 95%; ensuring the use of household waste such as cooking oil and washing water 94%; periodically disinfecting places with disinfectants about 93%; and burying dead birds and animals in the ground 92%. It was found that there was no clear role for agricultural extension in educating the respondents about of the rural home environment risks in the research area.
Keywords
health; food; housing; knowledge; role
Main Subjects
Agricultural Economic and Social Sciences


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Rural Women's Awareness of the Rural Home Environment Risks in Kafrelsheikh Governorate "مستوى وعي الريفيات بمخاطر البيئة الريفية المنزلية بمحافظة كفرالشيخ"