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

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.