Awareness of the Egyptian public about COVID-19: what we do and do not know.

IF 2.5 4区医学 Q2 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

Informatics for Health & Social Care Pub Date : 2021-09-02 Epub Date: 2021-02-23 DOI:10.1080/17538157.2021.1883029

Nirmeen Sabry, Seif ElHadidi, Ahmed Kamel, Maggie Abbassi, Samar Farid

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Abstract

To survey the health-seeking behaviors and perspectives of the Egyptian population toward the COVID-19 pandemic. A descriptive survey was designed and disseminated via social media platforms. The survey consisted of 32 questions addressing respondent's demographics, knowledge, practice, and attitude toward the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 25,994 Egyptians participated in the survey from the 29 Egyptian governorates. More than 99% of the respondents were aware of the COVID-19 pandemic. Responses showed split opinions regarding whether people should wear gloves or masks to prevent COVID-19 infection (47.7% and 49.5% replied with "False", respectively). Almost one-quarter (23.1%) of the respondents went to crowded places during the last 14 days. Calling the emergency hotline and self-isolation at home were the most frequent practices to deal with COVID-19 symptoms (34.1% and 44.5%, respectively). A total of 85% of respondents reported their confidence in the Egyptian healthcare system to win the battle against COVID-19 despite the challenges. A vast majority of this large population sample reported reasonable knowledge levels and potentially appropriate practices toward COVID-19.

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埃及公众对COVID-19的认识:我们知道什么和不知道什么。

目的调查埃及人群对COVID-19大流行的就医行为和看法。设计了一项描述性调查，并通过社交媒体平台传播。该调查包括32个问题，涉及受访者的人口统计、知识、实践和对COVID-19大流行的态度。共有来自埃及29个省的25994名埃及人参与了这项调查。超过99%的受访者了解COVID-19大流行。对于是否应该戴手套或口罩来预防新冠病毒感染，回答“否”的比例分别为47.7%和49.5%。近四分之一(23.1%)的受访者在过去14天内去过人群密集的地方。拨打紧急热线和居家自我隔离是应对新冠肺炎症状最常见的做法(分别为34.1%和44.5%)。共有85%的受访者表示，尽管面临挑战，他们对埃及医疗体系赢得抗击COVID-19之战的信心。这一庞大人口样本中的绝大多数报告了合理的知识水平和对COVID-19的潜在适当做法。

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Informatics for Health & Social Care 医学-卫生保健

CiteScore

6.10

自引率

4.20%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Informatics for Health & Social Care promotes evidence-based informatics as applied to the domain of health and social care. It showcases informatics research and practice within the many and diverse contexts of care; it takes personal information, both its direct and indirect use, as its central focus. The scope of the Journal is broad, encompassing both the properties of care information and the life-cycle of associated information systems. Consideration of the properties of care information will necessarily include the data itself, its representation, structure, and associated processes, as well as the context of its use, highlighting the related communication, computational, cognitive, social and ethical aspects. Consideration of the life-cycle of care information systems includes full range from requirements, specifications, theoretical models and conceptual design through to sustainable implementations, and the valuation of impacts. Empirical evidence experiences related to implementation are particularly welcome. Informatics in Health & Social Care seeks to consolidate and add to the core knowledge within the disciplines of Health and Social Care Informatics. The Journal therefore welcomes scientific papers, case studies and literature reviews. Examples of novel approaches are particularly welcome. Articles might, for example, show how care data is collected and transformed into useful and usable information, how informatics research is translated into practice, how specific results can be generalised, or perhaps provide case studies that facilitate learning from experience.