Epilepsy is one of the most common pediatric neurological disorders, which have negative psychological, emotional, and physical consequences of providing care. Nursing intervention is a key element of managing these patients and their families in order to reduce feelings of burden and enhancing coping among caregivers. Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of nursing intervention on a feeling of burden and coping among caregivers of children with epilepsy. Design: A quasi-experimental design (one group pretest-posttest design) was used to achieve the aim of the study. Setting: The study was conducted at the outpatient clinic at the health insurance institute in Shebin El-Kom district, Menoufia Governorate. Subject: A convenience sample of 80 caregivers was used. Tool: I-A constructed interviewing questionnaire was developed by researchers to assess socio demographic data, medical history and family caregiver's knowledge, practices and opinions regarding child with epilepsy. II-Modified version of the Zarit burden interviewing questionnaire to assess feeling of burden. III-Coping Health Inventory for Parents to assess coping patterns of care giver's. The Results: the main finding of this study illustrated that, there were statistical significance differences regarding caregivers' knowledge and practices. Reduction of the feeling of burden and improvement of coping patterns after nursing intervention than before. There was a negative correlation between caregiver's knowledge, practice and feeling of burden and there was a positive correlation between (KPO) and coping among caregivers. The majority of the studied caregivers were mothers (76%) with mean age score37.21±5.22, more than half were secondary education, and the majority (75%) was not working. Conclusion: Nursing intervention was effective in improving caregiver's knowledge, practices and opinions, feeling of burden and raising coping abilities for caregivers of children with epilepsy. Recommendation: additional nursing strategies are needed around the time of the diagnosis with longitudinal assessment and follow up for both caregivers and their children.

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Background: Patients aggression acts are a part of the average working day for psychiatric nurses. Identifying the risks in practice & adapt knowledge are the first steps in developing safe work practices and enhance positive attitude toward patient aggression. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of psycho-educational program for psychiatric nurses to protect themselves and others from the incidence of acute psychiatric inpatients aggression. Research design: A quasiexperimental design two groups control and study groups was utilized in this study. Setting: the study was conducted at the Psychiatric Mental Health Hospital in Banha City. Sample: A purposive sample of 100 nurses was constituted the study subjects, which divided into two groups study and control group (pre/post/ test) 50 nurses for each group. Tools of data collection: Five tools were used for data collection, (1): A structured interviewing questionnaire consisting of two parts: to assess Socio-demographic data for nurses, (2): Attitudes towards aggression scale, (3): Knowledge questionnaire about aggression, (4): Skills questionnaire about dealing with patient aggression and (5): The Perception of Prevalence of Aggression Scale. Results: The majority of study sample had positive attitude, adequate knowledge, competent skills and highly level of perception of aggression post program compared with pre educational program. Conclusion: There is positive significant correlation between skills, attitude and knowledge of study group at post the educational program. Recommendation: Aggression-management training programs should be given to all psychiatric nurses to enhance their confidence, knowledge and skill on management of patients aggression.