Background: Global warming is one of the most serious environmental problems of 21 st century. The phenomena not only affect human health but also plants, animals, as well as economy and unfortunately some adverse consequences of it, are becoming visible these days. Aim: To assess knowledge and attitude regarding global warming among Assiut University Students. Subjects and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional research design used. This study was carried out on four randomly selected faculties two of them practical and the others two were theoretical. A convenient sample of 1300 students included. Three tools were used the socioeconomic scale, a modified Environmental Issue Questionnaire to assess students' knowledge and a modified Likert's scale to assess students' attitude regarding global warming. Results: The study found that nearly two-thirds of the studied students were in age group of 20 years and more. Also, about half of the studied students had poor knowledge toward global warming and the majority of them had a positive attitude toward the same subject. Conclusion: A significant gap in students' knowledge which needs to be addressed for a better solution to contribute the global warming phenomenon. Recommendations: Integrating environmental concepts into the curriculums for all students from elementary school to university level to increase their environmental awareness about global warming phenomenon.
Introduction : Nutritional stunting indicates the chronic restriction of a child potential growth, Aim: To assess the prevalence and associated risk factors affecting nutritional stunting among children under five years at Suhag Governorate. Methods: This study had been conducted at Suhag Governorate. The total number of the sample 1268 children who recruited through convenient sample. Results: Slightly less than half (49.1%) of the children were aged und 2 years. 53% of them were boys and 47% were girls,. According to nutritional assessment of children under five years. It was noticed that 23.6% of them had moderate stunting and 11.3% of them had severe stunting while 15.6% of them had moderate underweight, 7.7% of them had severe underweight. Conclusion: More than one third of the studied children were stunted with chronic malnutrition also their mothers had unsatisfactory knowledge about nutritional stunting. Recommendations: Increase awareness of mothers about nutritional stunting, monitoring growth and development of their children, also educational program should be given for mothers of stunting children about nutrition, also small guideline book for mothers with stunting children to improve knowledge practice and attitude toward their children.
Study aimed to assess oral health knowledge, and reported practices among elderly with oral and dental problems. Design: Descriptive research design was used. Settings: This study was conducted in dental out-patients clinics of the General Assiut Hospital & the El-Eman General Hospital Quota sample was used to select elderly; the total number of sample was 1300 elderly. Tools: Three tools were used. Tool I: structured interview form. It includes socio-demographic characteristics, medical and oral health history, Tool II: to assess elderly oral health knowledge, it includes 20 questions. Tool III: it includes three parts (reported practice about tooth brushing, reported practice about general oral health care and brief oral health status examination. Results: The main results of study showed that total percent of the studied elderly had unsatisfactory knowledge and the vast majority of the studied elderly had inadequate reported practice about tooth brushing. Also it was noticed that more than one third of elderly never clean their mouth, while more than half had unhealthy oral state. Conclusion: The total percent and the vast majority of the studied elderly had unsatisfactory knowledge about oral health and inadequate practice about tooth brushing respectively. Recommendations: Providing health education program to the elderly people about oral health to improve their knowledge and practice.
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