Background: Psychiatric/mental health nursing is one of the core courses for undergraduate nursing students, but the complex and abstract nature of much of the psychiatric mental health course content makes it a challenge for many students. The aim was to examine the relationship between academic stress and self-control among faculty of nursing students. Descriptive co-relational design was utilized to achieve the aim of the study. This study was carried out at Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University. A convenient sample of 180 students selected from the previous selected setting. Three tools were used for data collection (tool one): A structured interviewing questionnaire to assess socio-demographic characteristics of the students as age, gender, residence and parent's education, (tool two): Nursing education stress scale (academic stress subscale), (tool three): Selfcontrol scale. Results: There was a highly statistically significant relationship between academic stress and selfcontrol among faculty of nursing students. Conclusion: It was concluded that there was a highly statistically significant negative correlation between academic stress and self-control among faculty of nursing students. Recommendations: Stress management technique, behavioral therapy techniques, assertiveness training technique and mindfulness training should be given to the student to help them relive their academic stress and disturbed levels of self-control.

Background: Psychological distress and burden among family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia can be mediated by resilience and perceived social support from family members, friends, and other significant caregivers. These are integral to bring positive changes in recovery and adaptation of family caregivers. Those reduce stress characteristics, also improve quality of life and quality of care provided for patients by family caregivers. Aim: This study aimed to determine the relationship between level of resilience and type of perceived social support among family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Design: A descriptive correlational design was used in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at Elmaamoura Hospital for Psychiatric Medicine in Alexandria, Egypt. Subjects: Subjects of this study consisted of 200 family caregivers of patients with schizophrenia. Tools: Three tools were used to collect necessary data namely a sociodemographic structured interview schedule, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC-10) and the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS). Results: Among the studied caregivers 76% had low level of resilience and most of the caregivers 82.5% had moderate perceived social support. A statistically significant positive relationship was found between resilience and total score of perceived social support & its three subscales (family social support, important people social support and friends social support). On further analysis using stepwise multiple regression, the study revealed that family social support emerged as the first predictor of resilience. Conclusion: It can be concluded that most of the studied patients had low level of resilience and moderate perceived social support. Moreover, perceived social support is related to and can predict more resilience among family caregivers.

This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License IJNC.MS.ID.000541.Introduction Parkinson's disease is one of the common neurodegenerative movement disorders after Alzheimer disease. The cardinal manifestations of Parkinson disease are rest tremors, rigidity, bradykinesia and postural instability were described by Jamen Parkinson in 1817. He also described certain non-motor manifestations such as sialorrhea, urinary incontinence, sleep disturbances, feeling light-headed and falling, unpleasant sensations in leg and constipation. It was classified into nine domains which are; urinary, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, sexual, cognition (apathy/attention/memory), hallucinations/delusions, anxiety/ depression, and sleep and miscellaneous [1]. Parkinson's disease (PD) is a common and complex disorder, a good knowledge regarding it is essential for taking the best decisions about the diagnosis and management in standard clinical practice [2].PD affects approximately 1% of general population worldwide, especially those over the 60 years and about 4% in highest age and it is a rare before 50 years [3,4]. In patient with PD, many symptoms not observed if the patient is not to be asked about them.The emphasis in the last decade has been on the motor symptoms of PD, focusing mainly on tremor, postural instability, rigidity, and bradykinesia. Now, it is recognized that the disease is more pervasive with various non -motor symptoms, also, NMS happen throughout the course illness from early to late diseases and at any time [5]. NMSs are not mentioned by the patients with PD unless asked. These symptoms are undeclared because the embarrassment patient's sensation, or their caregivers and the motor symptoms take the more chance during the patient interviewing. Moreover, the patients are not asked regarding their symptoms which are overlooked.

Social websites are excessively used today among university students. Many students use it for different reasons which put them at risk for social websites addiction. The purpose of the study was to assess the potential social websites addiction motives among university students. Design: A descriptive correlational research design was utilized. The setting was first-year students at the faculty of art and faculty of nursing. Sample: A purposive sample of 140 students was selected from the above mention setting who have scores of 50 to 79 on social networking sites addiction scale (high-risk groups).Two instruments were used for data collection: instrument one contained an interview questionnaire composed of two parts about sociodemographic characteristics and social websites use data. Instrument two included two parts; part one was Internet use motives scale and part two included social networking addiction scale. The results revealed that the most common motives level were escaped from stress, social integration, and lack of assertiveness (77.14%, 72.86%, 64.28%, respectively).There was an increase in the mean score of sexual behavior as a motive for social websites use among males students than females students while there was an increase in the mean score of control as a motive for social websites use among females students than males students. There was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between potential social websites addiction and both of a lack of assertiveness, escape from stress and total motive for social websites use. It was concluded that the highest motives level for social websites use were escape from stress, social integration and a lack of assertiveness respectively. Thus, it was recommended that counseling program are needed to help the university students to control use social web sites and prevent falling into addiction

Background: thalassemia affects a patient's psychological state and exerts adverse effects on the mental health of patients and their families. The chronic nature of thalassemia transforms varied aspects of patients' lives, including their self-efficacy. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy on self-efficacy and psychological wellbeing of children with thalassemia Methods: A quasi-experimental, single-group, pre-and post-test design was applied to accomplish the study objective. The study was conducted at an outpatient clinic at Menoufia University hospital in Shebin Elkom in Egypt. Sample: A purposive sample of 60 thalassemic children was selected from the above mentioned environment. Data were gathered via two tools: the psychological wellbeing scale for children (PWB-c) and the self-efficacy for managing chronic disease 6-item scale. Additionally, socio-demographic data were collected, and therapy sessions were conducted. Results: a positive and significant correlation was found between the self-efficacy and psychological wellbeing of the studied children immediately after and one month following the intervention. A highly statistically significant improvement was noted in the total mean scores of both the self-efficacy and psychological wellbeing of studied children immediately after and 1-month after the intervention at p-value (<0.001). Conclusion: The implementation of positive psychotherapy proved constructive in enhancing the self-efficacy and psychological wellbeing of children with thalassemia. Recommendations: First, positive psychotherapy should be applied in specialized disease centers to increase the self-efficacy and psychological wellbeing of clinic workers as well as thalassemic children. Second, the scope of positive psychotherapy should be expanded to all treatment levels

Background:Clinical training has been recognized as a stressful experience for nursing students. Psychiatric/ mental health nursing is one of the core courses for undergraduate nursing students, but the complex and abstract nature of much of the psychiatric mental health course content makes it a challenge for many students. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing intervention on clinical training stress and self-control among faculty of nursing students. A quasi-experimental research design two groups (experimental and control group) was used to achieve the aim of the study. This study was carried out at Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University. A convenient sample of 180 students selected from the previous selected setting who had clinical training stress and disturbed levels of self-control. Three tools were used for data collections (1): A structured interviewing questionnaire to assess socio-demographic characteristics of the students, (2): Nursing education stress scale (clinical training stress subscale), (3): Self-control scale. The results revealed that there was a significant reduction on the levels of clinical training stress and improvement of self-control levels in the experimental group after application of nursing intervention than control group. Based on this result it was concluded that nursing intervention had a great effect in reducing the levels of clinical training stress and increasing the levels of self-control among faculty of nursing students. Recommendations: Generalize the application of nursing intervention to all college students to reduce their clinical training stress and increase their self-control.

Background: Patients with depression often experience a feeling of disconnectedness as a consequence of the symptomatology of the disorder. Resilience may offer the link for those with a mental illness to move from disconnectedness to connectedness. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of resilience training based nursing intervention on depressive symptoms, coping styles, and resilience among patients with depression. Design: Quasi-experimental design two groups study and control was used to achieve the aim of this study. Subjects: A purposive sample of 64 patients with depression was selected for this study. Results: there was a negative significant correlation between the total score of depressive symptoms and with both resilience, and adaptive coping styles respectively, pre-intervention. There was also a statistically significant difference in the reduction of both severe and moderate depressive symptoms post-intervention compared to the control group. There was a statistically significant difference in increasing of the mean total score of resilience and adaptive coping post-intervention compared to the control group. Conclusion: Resilience training based nursing intervention was effective in improving depressive symptoms, resilience, and coping styles. Recommendations: resilience training-based nursing intervention should be applied for all depressed patients and other psychiatric disorders to improve their resilience and adaptive coping leading to improvement of symptoms severity in return.

Background: Psychiatric nurses' face a variety of stressors as shortage of nurses; lack of autonomy, lack of support from managers and unexpected psychiatric patient behavior like aggression and violence. Clinical competency is used as an index for accreditation in the hospitals. Clinical competency is a complicated concept that encompasses different aspects of knowledge, skills and attitudes. Clarifications of psychiatric nursing competency enhance and embrace recovery-oriented frameworks in their daily practice. This study was aimed to explore the relation between clinical competency and perceived psychiatric nurses' job stress. Subjects and method: A descriptive correlational research design was used. Setting: The study was conducted at Benha Hospital for mental health. Sample: A convenience sample of 74 psychiatric nurses constituted the study sample. Tools: Tool I: The Perceived Psychiatric Nurses Job Stress Scale (PNJSS) and Tool II: Clinical competency scale. Results: there was a positive relation between levels of clinical competency and levels of perceived job -related stress among study sample. Conclusion: The current study revealed that there was a good level of clinical competency and a moderate level of perceived job stress among study sample. There was also a positive relationbetween levels of clinical competency and levels of perceived job stress among study sample. Recommendations: Nurses clinical competency must be assessed regularly because of the changes in therapeutic settings and a replication of similar study with a larger sample size and use of other scales that are approximately close length.