Background: The study aimed to assess traditional practices self-reported by nursing students to relieve dysmenorrhea. The study design was descriptive design. Setting: the study was conducted in nursing technical secondary school at Benha university hospital. Sampling: purposive sample that consisted of 150 students suffered from dysmenorrhea in the three years of the nursing secondary school. Tools of data collection: structured interviewing questionnaire, knowledge assessment sheet and assessment of used traditional practices by nursing students. Results: 64.7%of the studied sample had unsatisfactory knowledge about dysmenorrhea, 37.1% of studied students always used many of traditional practices to relieve dysmenorrheal and 44% of studied sample satisfied with traditional practices used for menstrual pain relief. Conclusion: Less than two thirds of the studied students always used many of traditional practices to relieve dysmenorrhea. The most common traditional method was drinking natural herbs followed by taking a warm bath and massaging the abdomen as reported by females. Recommendations: Encouraging the student females to use traditional methods in the first days of menses for relieving dysmenorrhea.
Aim of the study was to assess the effect of menopausal symptoms on women's quality of life. Design: A descriptive study design was carried out. Setting: The study was conducted at Benha University. Sampling: purposive sample included 200 menopausal women. Tools of data collection: interviewing questionnaire sheet, knowledge assessment sheet regarding menopause, menopausal rating scale sheet and quality of life assessment sheet. Results: the study results revealed that more than two third of the studied group had poor knowledge about menopause and of the studied group had moderate level of menopausal symptoms and there are a negative strong correlation between menopausal symptoms and quality of life. Conclusion: the present study revealed that women's quality of life affected negatively with menopausal symptoms and the majority of the studied group had average quality of life. Recommendation: design awareness program for women regarding menopausal symptoms and dealing with it.
Aim of the study: The study aimed to assess women's knowledge, practices and attitude regarding family planning. Setting: The study was conducted at Benha Medical Center for Maternal and Child Health. Design: Descriptive study design. Sampling: A purposive sample included 400 women were recruited in the current study. Tools: Two tools were used to collect data, an interviewing questionnaire to collect data related to women's knowledge and practices regarding family planning and Modified Likert scale was used to assess women's attitude regarding family planning. Results: The present study revealed that, the majority of studied women had inadequate knowledge regarding family planning, while the majority of them had positive attitude regarding family planning. More than half of studied women had satisfactory level of practices regarding current using method of family planning. Conclusion: There was a highly positive correlation between studied women's knowledge and their practices of family planning(p<0.001**). There was a significant negative correlation between studied women's knowledge and their attitude regarding family planning(p=0.05*). Recommendations: Periodic educational program for women to increase their knowledge and to improve their practices. Counseling women about the importance of periodic follow up.
Background: Puberty is the most important milestone of change in teenage life. This is a time to become adult with reproductive ability. The aim was to evaluate effect of instructional guide lines on adolescent girls knowledge and attitude regarding puberty development Design: A quasi experimental, one group study design was utilized. Setting: Secondary Nursing school which affiliated to general hospital and educational institutes at province of Qaliobya. Sampling: A convenient sample of 100 adolescent girls. Three tools were used: A structured interviewing questionnaire, assessment of adolescent girl's knowledge regarding puberty development and assessment of adolescent girl's attitude regarding puberty development. Results: Minority of the studied adolescent girls (11.0%) had good knowledge regarding puberty development pre intervention which increased to (81.0%) post intervention, however minority of studied adolescent girls (19.0 %) had positive attitude regarding puberty development pre intervention which increased to two thirds (67.0%) post intervention. Additionally, there were a highly statistically significant relation between total knowledge score and total attitude score pre intervention and post intervention. Conclusion: There was highly statistically significant relation between total knowledge and total attitude score pre intervention and post intervention. There was significant improvement in adolescent girls' knowledge and attitude regarding puberty development. Therefore, the study hypothesis was supported. Recommendations: encourage healthy and positive attitude about puberty development in girls at an early age before puberty occurs rather than teaching them when puberty occurs.
Background: Puerperal sepsis is an infective condition of the woman following childbirth and one of the leading causes of death. Aim of study: Was to assess nurses' knowledge and attitude regarding women's sepsis during postpartum period. Design: A descriptive study design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted at obstetrics and gynecological department in Benha university hospital. Sample: A convenient sample included 70 maternity nurses. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used. Tool (I): Self-administered questionnaire sheet to assess demographic characteristics of the studied nurses and knowledge of maternity nurses regarding women's sepsis during postpartum period. Tool (II): A modified likert scale to assess nurses' attitudes regarding women's sepsis on postpartum period. Results: More than half of the studied nurses had poor knowledge while a minority of them had good knowledge regarding women's sepsis during postpartum period. Also, less than half of the studied nurses had positive attitudes, While, more than half of them had negative attitudes about women's sepsis during postpartum period. and negative attitude regarding women's sepsis during postpartum period respectively. Conclusion: There was positive statistically significant correlation between total knowledge and total attitude scores of the studied nurses. Recommendations: Developing a periodical training and educational program for nurses working at obstetrics department for improving their knowledge and acquiring positive attitude regarding control of women's sepsis during postpartum period.
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