Background: Acceptance of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine is uncertain and uptake of the vaccine may be hampered by the widespread reduction in public trust in immunization. Uptake of 55-82 percent is needed to gain herd immunity against COVID. Thus investigating important Health belief model (HBM) components that impact the COVID-19 vaccination may be critical for interventions designed to improve vaccine acceptability. Objectives: To assess the acceptance of COVID-19 vaccine among Egyptians and its determinants based on the health belief model. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 1152 Egyptians, information was collected in two ways: a face-to-face interview in outpatient clinics, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig and Cairo Universities and through social networking sites, including Facebook and WhatsApp between May and June 2021. Results: Overall, 37.5% accept to receive the vaccine, and those who plan to get the COVID-19 vaccination believe it is a more serious illness, are more susceptible to the disease, have a higher perception of infection risk, perceive more benefits from vaccination, and greater levels of cues to action and self-efficacy as well as reduced perception of barriers concerning the vaccine. Individuals who perceived COVID-19 as a more serious illness were aged 30 or more, female, high school or higher, working, urban residents, married, or chronically ill. Conclusions: Egypt has one of the lowest rates of COVID-19 vaccination acceptance, since vaccination appears to be the only method to stop the pandemic, the factors associated with low vaccine acceptance must be addressed.
Background: Teachers can play role models in following COVID-19 preventive measures and can act as supervisors ensuring students application of these measures. The practice of hand hygiene and mask use should be correct to achieve the desired effect. Objective: To assess the effect of health education intervention on Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices (KAP) of K-12 schools' teachers as regards hand hygiene and mask use. Methods: Interventional study was conducted from March 2021 to July 2021 on 98 teachers from K-12 schools in Zagazig city, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. Participants were given health education intervention including practical training and eliminating barriers to hand hygiene and mask use. The effect of intervention was assessed through KAP questionnaire and observation checklist. Results: Following intervention, the percent of participants who achieved satisfactory knowledge, positive attitude, satisfactory self-reported and observed practices related to hand hygiene had increased from 33.7%, 34.7%, 29.6% and 32.6% to 67.4%, 84.7%, 72.4 and 76.5% respectively and that related to face mask use had increased from 29.6%, 46.9%, 37.7% and 28.6% to 78.6%, 85.7%,72.5% and 69.4% respectively, most barriers to hand hygiene and face mask use had significantly decreased. Despite positive correlation between post intervention knowledge, attitudes and practices related to hand hygiene and mask use, there were insignificant associations between them and all participants characteristics except association of satisfactory observed practices with gender, marital state, and social class. Conclusion: Health education intervention was effective in improving knowledge, attitudes and practices related to hand hygiene and mask use among K-12 schools' teachers.
Background: Healthy lifestyle promotion among females, enables attainment of healthy generations. Objectives: To evaluate effect of an educational program about health promoting lifestyle on health outcomes menopausal symptoms among Egyptian females. Method: A quasi-experimental study, was conducted in two directorates in Zagazig district, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt from March to December 2021. A representative sample was drawn by a two-stage sample design. The study was conducted through three phases: pre and post intervention phases for both groups. Within intervention phase, educational program on adopting health promoting lifestyle was applied for the experimental group. Results: There is statistically non-significant difference between both groups regarding mean score of baseline health responsibility, physical activity, nutrition, spiritual growth, interpersonal relation, stress management, total health promotive lifestyles, somatic, psychological, urogenital, and total menopausal rating scale scores. There is statistically significant difference between them regarding means of all domains of both tools after intervention. Within experimental group, there is statistically significant improvement in domains and total scores after intervention. Mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP, DBP) become significantly lower among experimental group. There is significant decrease in mean BMI, blood sugar, SBP and DBP within experimental group. On the other hand, within control group, there is non-significant change in BMI, SBP, or DBP. Conclusion: Implementing educational interventions based on health-promoting behaviors is an effective technique for reducing illness occurrence and improving women's postmenopausal health.
Background: Owing to high prevalence and potentially harmful physical and psychosocial consequences, eating disorders are considered as significant harm to adolescents in public health. Many factors increase the risk for developing eating disorders such as social pressure, cultural factors, economic status, and the media programs' focus on weight loss Objectives:The study aimed to detect if there are any differences between athletic female students and non-athletic ones in perceiving body shape, body mass index, and eating disorders. Methods: This is a comparative cross-sectional study comparing between athletic female students from Faculty of Physical Education for Girls and non-athletic female students from another college using a self-administrated questionnaire consisting of a demographic section, an Arabic version of the Eating Attitude Test 26, the Body Shape Questionnaire, and the Body Figure Rating Scale. Results: 118 female students participated in the current study and completed the questionnaires. Athletic female students got higher scores in the Eating Attitude Test 26, showing moderate to severe body shape dissatisfaction. There was a statistically significant difference (p <0.05) between athletic and non-athletic female students in terms of actual body size and perceived body image. Conclusion: The study results demonstrated that athletic female students were more prone to the risk of eating disorders than non-athletic ones along with dissatisfaction of their body image. It is advised that the athletic departments examine their students for eating disorders with the purpose of early detection. Further studies are needed to assess the relationship between the risk of developing eating disorders and athletic female students to overcome this problem in an early stage.
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