Background: Colostomy means an artificial opening of the colon onto the abdominal surface. It may originate from: The sigmoid colon, the descending colon, the transverse colon or the ascending colon. the colostomy need care so that the patients can determine self-care to prevent complications. Aim: Evaluate effect of self-care program for patients using colostomy at Mansoura City. Design: A quasi-experimental research design. Setting: Conducted at the Surgical Outpatients Clinic in Mansoura University Hospital. Sample: A purposive sample (40) colostomy patients. Tools: An interviewing tools was used in this study divided to three parts, 1) Socio-demographic characteristics, 2) Patients' knowledge regarding colostomy, and 3) Patients' reported self-care practices toward colostomy. Results: The present study results showed that patients' total score knowledge pre self-care program was 14.4040±9.15423, while after post self-care program it improved to 35.3200±6.9390. As well, the results showed that total score reported self-care practices pre self-care program was 6.320±6.735, which improved to 15.300±2.262 post self-care program, with highly statistically significant differences. Conclusion: The self-care program improved patients' knowledge and reported self-care practices toward colostomy. Recommendations: This study recommended that a further research is needed to investigate the long-term effect of such educational intervention on the health of patients with colostomy and should be carried out on a larger number of colostomy patients for evidence of the results and generalization.

Epilepsy is a disorder of the brain that causes recurrent seizures. Effects people at all ages, but with higher rates at primary school age. Children with epilepsy face several social, cultural and learning problems, so that school health nurses and teachers have essential role to decrease these problems. Aim: Evaluate the educational program for school health nurses and teachers regarding primary school children with epilepsy. Design: A quasi experimental design was adopted. Setting: Governmental primary schools in Sammanoud City, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. Sampling: Two samples were used: For school health nurses, all of them participated in the study, these were 21 school health nurses, and for teachers; simple random sample was used to select 249 teachers, with the following criteria: Direct contact with students in the class or during providing activities. Tools: An interviewing questionnaire which includes 4 parts, 1) Demographic characteristics, 2) School health nurses and teachers' knowledge about meaning of epilepsy, 3) School health nurses and teachers' attitude toward primary school children suffering from epilepsy, and 4) School health nurses and teachers' practice toward primary school children with epilepsy. Results: This study showed, highly statistically significant improvement of school health nurses and teachers' knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding epilepsy (4.23±1.23 to 5.14±1.08 and 1.49±1.07 to 4.57±1.46,) (6.91±1.60 to 10.68±2.06and 2.59±2.32to 9.26±2.21) (2.27±2.55 to 3.18±2.46 and 0.78±1.79 to 3.27±2.38) respectively post educational program implementation. Conclusion: Educational program improved the school health nurses and teachers' knowledge, attitude and practices regarding primary school children with epilepsy. The study results also showed a highly statistically significant and positive correlation between knowledge, attitude and practices of studied samples after educational program implementation. Recommendation: Dissemination of the educational program for school health nurses and teachers at all governmental and nongovernmental schools; Clarified booklet should be provided to school health nurses and teachers to deal them how to deal with children suffering from epilepsy; Training the school health nurses before work to determine how apply educational program for teachers to determine how to deal with children suffering from epilepsy during and after seizure.

Background Chronic prostatitis is a common urological diagnosis in men of all ages in Egypt. Chronic prostatitis causes many men significant morbidity, coping strategy play important role to deal the patients diagnosed with chronic prostatitis and to cope with their case. Aim: the study aims to evaluate the effect of coping strategy intervention for patients diagnosed with chronic prostatitis Research design: A quasi-experimental design was used in this study. Setting: This study was conducted at the Urology Outpatient Clinic in Ain Shams University Hospitals. Sample: A purposive sample was used to select 60 of patients diagnosed with chronic prostatitis .Tools :the researchers used two tools I) An interviewing questioner which consists of three parts, I) patients socio-demographic data, II)Assess patient's present medical history, and III) patients' knowledge regarding chronic prostatitis, II) Brief cope scale; standardized tool used for evaluating coping strategy among chronic prostatitis patients, Results: this study showed, highly statistically significant improvement of patients diagnosed with chronic prostatitis knowledge and coping strategy post coping strategy intervention than pre, (4.166±2.262 and 57.533 ± 15.053) , (11.633±2.532 and 66.667 ± 6.357)respectively post coping strategy intervention implementation. Conclusion: coping strategy intervention implementation aid the patients diagnosed with chronic prostatitis to cope with chronic disease, also their knowledge regarding chronic prostatitis improved, Recommendations: Providing booklet to patients diagnosed with chronic prostatitis to describe the natural of disease and how to cope with this type of chronic disease; design and hinting poster about coping strategy Intervention regarding prostatitis in Urology outpatient clinic; and further researchers are needed in other setting and implement coping strategy intervention for patients diagnosed with chronic prostatitis.

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