اعتماد الجمهور المصري على وسائل الإعلام الجديد كمصدر للمعلومات و الأخبار حول جائحة فيروس كورونا (كوفيد-19)‎ و دوره في تعزيز الوعي الصحي لديه

Abstract EN

The Egyptian public dependence on new media as a source for information and news about the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and its role in reinforcing its health awareness 

The study aims to recognize the extent to which the Egyptian public depends on new media as a source for information and news about the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and its role in reinforcing its health awareness.

This study is a descriptive study relying on the survey method.

Then, an electronic questionnaire has been applied and sent to a 400-sample of The Egyptian public who uses the new media.

Such questionnaire includes a measure of health awareness.

The most important results of such questionnaire show a wide range of the public using the new media and significantly depending on such new media as a source of getting information and news about Coronavirus pandemic.

The methods of prevention, symptoms, methods of infection transmission, precautionary methods, good health information acquisition and following-up the pandemic updates are most preferred topics; and physicians come to the top of non-media sources on which researched sample depend.

Additionally, Confidence increases to official websites more than other new media, research hypothesis has been completely proven as there is a positive relationship between exposure (i.

e.

usage) motives and health awareness level.

Also, there is a positive relationship between the Egyptian public's dependence on new media and the level of health awareness.

This study has proven the realization of behavioral, sentimental, and cognitive influences because of public's dependence on the new media; and there are differences in health awareness levels about Coronavirus pandemic.