Effect of Online Health Protective Guidelines to Qualify Adult People to Return after Pandemic Curfew of Covid-19

Atef Ibrahiem Elzehiri, Donia; Awad A’elmagied Salime, Rasha; Abdel Salam Ibrahim, Reda

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2021.194866

Effect of Online Health Protective Guidelines to Qualify Adult People to Return after Pandemic Curfew of Covid-19

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University

² Lecturer of adult health care nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Helwan University, Egypt

³ Lecturer of Medical Surgical Nursing department, Faculty of Nursing Tanta University

10.21608/ejhc.2021.194866

Abstract

Background: The corona virus pandemic is causing large magnitude loss of life and severe human
distress worldwide. It is the biggest public health emergency in living memory. Aim: The study
aims to evaluate the effect of implementing online health-protective guidelines to qualify adult
people to return after the pandemic curfew of Covid-19. Design: A quasi-experimental design was
utilized. Setting: The data collected through an electronic questionnaire using google forms to
design then using google drive link to distribute it through using social media. Subjects: A
convenient sample includes available adult members within 6 months. Tools: An electronic self-
administered questionnaire was designed by the researchers, it included three parts: Part I. Adult
member’s socio-demographic characteristics. Part II. Knowledge involves study member's
knowledge about Covid-19. Part III. Reported practices. Results: illuminates that there were
noticeable changes of means ± SD in all tested items of knowledge before and after implementing
online health-protective guidelines, with highly statistically significant differences were observed
(P >0.000). Also, there was a radical satisfactory improvement among the majority of studied
members’ total score of reported practices as well there were highly statistically significant
improvements were observed in the studied members’ mean scores in most of all tested items of
reported practice (P >0.000). There was a statistically significant strong relation between total
scores of pre-and post-knowledge & reported practices of online health-protective guidelines with
their sociodemographic characteristics (p > 0.001). Conclusion: Online health-protective guidelines
achieved their aim as well as a significant improvement of the studied members’ means scores of
COVID-19 knowledge and protective reported practices after implementation of online health-
protective guidelines about pandemic COVID-19. Recommendations: Development of online
health-protective guidelines targeting vulnerable population as pregnant, elderly people and school-
age students. As well delivering regular and accurate information updates on the COVID-19 healthy
protective guidelines is needed.

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