أثر التليفون المحمول في نشر بعض المعارف المتعلقة بترشيد الاستهلاك الغذائي بين الريفيات بإحدى قرى محافظة البحيرة

Abstract EN

The main purpose of this research was to determine the role of mobile phone in diffusion of some knowledge related to food consumption rationalization among rural women through a number of sub-objectives: (1) identify some characteristics of selected rural women, (^) determine the knowledge degree of the selected rural women about the related information of some knowledge and information related to food consumption rationalization before and after using to mobile phone, (3) identify the significance of the differences between the average scores of the selected rural women knowledge of some related knowledge of food consumption rationalization before and after the use of mobile phone, and (4) Identify obstacles to the use of mobile phone in the dissemination of knowledge and information related to food consumption rationalization.

The study was conducted on a random sample of 100 researchers randomly selected from the population of 2541 women in the village of Al-Kardoud.

The data was collected in two stages using the questionnaire before and after using of mobile phone in disseminating information about food consumption rationalization, The data was analyzed by The statistical analysis program (SPSS) to reach the percentages, mean, standard deviation and (t) test.

The most important research results were: 1 - The level of education of the selected rural women was between illiterate women and who have postgraduate degrees.

2 - Decline the level of the selected rural women in farm and animal holdings, the level of cosmopolitans as well as the satisfaction of life in the village.

3 - Lack of the role of agricultural extension in the dissemination of knowledge and information related to food consumption rationalization.

4 - There is a positive attitude between the selected rural women to use the mobile phone in the dissemination of recommendations.

5 - All the selected rural women have a mobile phone, the number of mobile phones in the same family between 1-7 mobile phones, as well as the age of selected rural women sons from mobile phone users was youngest than the average.

6 - The results showed that the selected rural women point of view was the best way to receive information related to food consumption rationalization is the telephone conversation.