دور مصادر المعلومات الصحية في تشكيل الوعي الصحي لطالبات جامعة الأزهر

Abstract EN

The topic of health awareness is one of the main topics that call for the attention of researchers because it is related to the health of the individual and society and the dissemination of patterns of health culture that reflect positively on behavior and lifestyle and avoid diseases that may affect them as a result of lifestyle change and the spread of new diseases.

The human being is the goal and the means of development, maintaining his health and awareness of the good health rules is a societal necessity that researchers must take care of, so that it can ensure that individuals enjoy the highest level of health that can be accessed and this is done by affecting the knowledge of individuals and their attitudes and behavior and their calculations and their healthy habits that lead to the prevention of diseases and enable them to maintain their health and help them to solve their health problems.

Hence the importance of the current study where the topic of health awareness and study and to know the level of availability of individuals, especially university students, is a vital and necessary topic at the moment in which chronic diseases and serious epidemics had spread.

The aim of the study was to identify the sources of health information on which female students of Al-Azhar University rely on access to health information and the role of these sources in shaping the health awareness of female students of Al-Azhar University.

This study is a descriptive study and the researcher applied a questionnaire form to a sample of female students of Al-Azhar University and the results were analyzed statistically.

The study reached a number of results, the most important of which is that the Internet is one of the most sources of health information on which students of Al-Azhar University rely in obtaining health information, as the results showed that the level of health awareness for female students of Al-Azhar University was average, as the study found that the health pages on social media sites and continuous visits to health centers the most influential sources of information in the formation of health awareness for students of Al-Azhar University.