Effect of Awareness Program Regarding Climate Change on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of University Students

Abstract

Climate change is impacting human lives and health in a variety of ways. It threatens the essential ingredients of good health as; clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply and safe shelter and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health. Aim: To evaluate the effect of awareness program regarding climate change on knowledge, attitude and practices of university students. Design: A quasi-experimental design. Setting: Faculty of Nursing, Kafr elsheikh University. Sampling: A systematic random sample consists of 425 students. Tool I: Structured questionnaire; composed of two parts. Part 1: Students' personal characteristics. Part 2: Students' knowledge regarding climate change. Tool II: Students' daily life reported practices questionnaire. Tool III: Students' attitude regarding climate change questionnaire. Tool IV: Students' awareness of climate change questionnaire. Results: There was a highly statistical significant difference between knowledge level, attitude and daily life practices of the university students regarding climate changes pre & post awareness program implementation. There was a positive correlation between knowledge, daily life practices & attitude of university students total scores pre/post program implementation at P<0.000. Conclusion: The awareness program has a significant positive effect on the students' level of knowledge; attitude and daily life reported practices regarding the climate change. Recommendation: Considerable work needs to be done in the direction of integrating climate change concepts into the university curriculums in order to increase the environmental awareness among all university students irrespective of their study specialization.

Climate Change and Health: Effect of Awareness Program on Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Community Dwelling Elderly

“…This result in the same line with a study done in Saudi Arabia by Almulhim ,(2021) (69) who stated that more than one quarter of the studied subjects had good awareness level about climate change at posttest. Also, Ghazy & Fathy, (2023) (37) in Egypt reported that significant improvement in most aspects of studied sample' awareness about climate change after the program application. Additionally another studies conducted in Italy by Mebane et al, (2023) (70) and in Philippines by Adlit et al, (2023) (71) who stated that climate change education intervention improve the studied sample awareness level.…”

“…Also, the same result was reinforced by Amin et al, (2023) (74) in Egypt who revealed that study subjects with satisfactory knowledge were four times more likely to perceive danger as higher than participants with insufficient knowledge (P = 0.000*). Last but not least, A study conducted by Ghazy, and Fathy, (2023) (37) in Egypt who revealed that there was a highly positive correlation between total participants' knowledge score level &attitudes and total daily life practices (at p < 0.001). This result can be justified by that the greater the knowledge regarding climate change , the more the elderly demonstrate satisfactory practices and having positive attitude toward adaptation with climate change and its effects on their health.…”

“…-The field work was carried over a period of 6 months from the first of April, 2023 to the end of September, 2023. D. Evaluation phase: Evaluation phase was done firstly before the program implementation (pre/test) using all study tools, then after 3 months from the program implementation (post/test) (37) to evaluate the effect of awareness program on knowledge, attitudes and practices of community dwelling elderly regarding climate change and its effect on health using tools; II, III, IV and V. Statistical analysis: The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was used to organize, categorize, tabulate and analyze the collected data. Descriptive statistics in the form of Means and standard deviations were used for continuous variables and frequencies and percentages were used for categorical variables.…”

“…Total awareness score of elderly was summed up and converted into a percent. Total responses were classified into three categories(37) :…”

Impact of Awareness Program for Carbon Footprint Mitigation among Nursing Students. A Step toward Sustainability

“…Overall, the implemented CF awareness program directly affected students' decision-making for a de-carbonization lifestyle. The Egyptian study of Ghazy and Fathy (2023) (36), detected a highly significant statistical difference between pre and post-program regarding CC indoor and outdoor daily life practices.…”