Open AccessRole of social media in the health awareness about coronavirus (COVID-19)
Author(s) -
Dr.lamia Salah Eldin mohammed Ibrahim
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1858-7593
DOI - 10.52981/cs.v2i8.1600
Subject(s) - christian ministry , social media , covid-19 , sample (material) , psychology , public relations , political science , world wide web , medicine , computer science , chemistry , disease , pathology , chromatography , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
The study aimed to identify the extent of the role of social media sites in health awareness of the emerging corona virus (COVID-19), as the researcher used the descriptive analytical method, and designed a content analysis form as a tool to collect data, and a purposive sample of (121) publications was selected to raise awareness of the emerging corona virus (COVID- 19), on the page of the Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health on Facebook, and the study showed many results, the most important of which are: The Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health page publications lack interest in the diversity of multimedia and its balanced use, as it relied heavily on the text attached to the illustrations specifically (logos) The hashtag in displaying the page’s posts for health awareness of the emerging corona virus (COVID-19) ranked first with a percentage of (61.16%), and the results showed the Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health page’s lack of focus in its publications on the topics, health advice and preventive measures, as it came at a rate of (9.09%), while it came The percentage of user interaction with the page's posts that exceeded 951 or more was in favor of the number of likes, which came at (71.07%), while the most important recommendations of the study were: Paying attention to issues related to health guidelines and preventive measures in most of the study page's publications, taking advantage of the possibilities and characteristics of multimedia and employing them in balanced and attractive images, especially visual, audio and static, animated and interactive graphics, which contributes to the diversity of methods of displaying the study page publications to raise awareness of the emerging Coronavirus (COVID-19 The page of the Sudanese Federal Ministry of Health should also pay attention to the diversity of its media sources in all posts.