Background: The educational system has been extremely affected by COVID-19 pandemic; it forced the shutdown of the institutions of higher education, which adversely affected student, teaching and learning across the world. Aim: determine gerontological nursing students' perception and stress of online learning during COVID-19 pandemic. Design: A cross-sectional study was utilized. Setting: Faculty of Nursing, Mansoura University, Egypt. Subjects: All undergraduate fourth level students registered in gerontological nursing course in the 2 nd semester during the academic year 2020/ 2021. Tools: The researchers developed an electronic self-administered questionnaire that conducted on the Google Forms platform it composed of three tools; Nursing Students' Demographic Data and Academic Performance Structured Questionnaire, Nursing Students' perception towards online learning and, Perceived Stress Scale. Results: Regarding students experience with online learning 59.6% had previous experience, 74.7% use smart phones and 57.7% were satisfied of online learning. 78% reported that online learning should be continued during this pandemic. In addition, a strong negative correlation was found between online learning perception and academic stress among the studied students. Conclusion: More than half of gerontological nursing students had moderate level of stress and positive perception towards online learning. Level of stress and perception towards online learning may depend on several factors including, sex, GPA, father and mother's education level, and family income. Recommendations: Training programs should be conducted to nursing students about using online learning platforms to improve their self-confidence in using it.
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) considering one of the most chronic disease affecting elderly patients all over the world. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a major worldwide public health problem for increasing its mortality and morbidity. Aim: Determine the functional status and quality of sleep among elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Method: A descriptive research design was used in this study. This study was conducted at kafr El sheikh Chest Hospital affiliated to the Ministry of health. A convenience sample of 116 elderly patients diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admitted to the above-mentioned setting within a period of six months. Tools: Data was collected by using three tools; demographic and clinical data structured interview schedule, Functional Independence Measure and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Results: The mean of age in the studied elderly patients was 70.05±8.08 years in addition the mean score of patients' functional status was 62.2 ± 32.1. nearly three quarter of the studied elderly suffering poor quality of sleeping and nearly half of them reported that their functional status were very good . Also, there was statistically negative significant correlation between functional status and sleep quality.
Conclusion:Nearly three quarters of studied elderly patients reported very good related to functional status, while, most of them reported poor quality of sleeping. quality of sleep was related to patient's functional health status. Recommendation: Development comprehensive simple Arabic printed educational materials such as (booklet, pamphlet and posters) for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can improve functional status and quality of sleep.
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