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

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

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Agricultural Economic and Social Science - Agricultural Faculty - Damietta University

² Agriculture Faculty - kafer elsheikh University

³ Agriculture Faculty- Suez Canal university

10.21608/alexja.2024.329724.1100

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.

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