Huny Mohamed Bakry1, Eman Hassan Waly2. 1. Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt. honeybakry@gmail.com. 2. Community, Environmental and Occupational Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt. emanwaly78@gmail.com.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Social distancing is principally intended to reduce infectious disease transmission by decreasing interactions among people in a broader community. Keeping social distancing is an essential public health measure to resist the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODOLOGY: a cross sectional study was conducted among 1,036 Egyptians using an online questionnaire between 5 and 10 May 2020. RESULTS: There was significant association between the practice of social distancing and some sociodemographic factors as sex, age, education, working status, and place of residence at p value < 0.001 and with community of residence at p value 0.021. CONCLUSIONS: Egyptians had good perception for social distancing to prevent transmission of COVID 19, but they were not strictly practicing it. Copyright (c) 2020 Huny Mohamed Bakry, Eman Hassan Waly.
INTRODUCTION: Social distancing is principally intended to reduce infectious disease transmission by decreasing interactions among people in a broader community. Keeping social distancing is an essential public health measure to resist the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODOLOGY: a cross sectional study was conducted among 1,036 Egyptians using an online questionnaire between 5 and 10 May 2020. RESULTS: There was significant association between the practice of social distancing and some sociodemographic factors as sex, age, education, working status, and place of residence at p value < 0.001 and with community of residence at p value 0.021. CONCLUSIONS: Egyptians had good perception for social distancing to prevent transmission of COVID 19, but they were not strictly practicing it. Copyright (c) 2020 Huny Mohamed Bakry, Eman Hassan Waly.
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Keywords:
COVID-19; Egypt; Social distancing; perception; practice