Community awareness amongst Gazans on dealing with Novel Covid-19

Abstract

The study aimed to measure the level of societal awareness of its different dimensions (health, social, media, and consumer) for the people of the Gaza Strip in dealing with the Corona virus pandemic (Covid-19). The study was applied a simple random sample of the population of the Gaza Strip who have electronic accounts and their number (710), the results of the study found that the highest level of societal awareness of the population of the Gaza Strip in dealing with the pandemic of the Corona virus is in the social dimension, followed by the health dimension, then the consumer, and the last media dimension, and the study also found statistically significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) In the level of societal awareness among the study sample in dealing with the pandemic of the Corona virus attributed to the gender variable, in favor of females, and also differences attributed to the age variable in favor of those with age (50 years or more), while the study did not find statistically significant differences at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) in The response of the study sample to the level of societal awareness in dealing with the Corona virus pandemic is due to the variable of the educational level.