Impact of social media on the knowledge about Covid-19:Online Questionnaire Study

Background: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic is rapidly and unpredictably evolving and most deaths, especially among older people. Social media has become a source of disseminating information to the public. The current study determined Impact of social media on the knowledge about Covid- 19 Methods: A descriptive design was used; 560 random participants were included in our study with different ages and sexes participated. Data were gathered used online questionnaire on different social media sites for 2 months. Procedure: The Link of research form distributed on social media sites for 2 months to collect data, the questionnaire was prepared in Arabic language Results: Results denoted that 58.9% aged less than 25 years while elderly people (60 and more) was11.0% of them. The highest proportion reported that heard about coronavirus from Facebook, while the lowest percentage (2.1%) heard from Newspapers, nearly half (49.8%) follows a page of World Health Organization, then Egyptian ministry of health site was (21.4%),Revealed to knowledge 49% had good knowledge and 19% had fair level of knowledge about coronavirus disease. There was highly statistically significant difference between knowledge level and age and a statistically significant difference between knowledge level and (level of education, the type of education & occupation) respectively. Conclusion: Nurse plays an important role to educate media consumers on what constitutes good and reliable information and how to critically think through this information. Recommendation: the current study recommended important of quality of health information and regulation system to determine information on social media