Background: Through the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, front-line nurses meet immense mental health challenges. It is actually a global health threat attributed to a negative impact on the mental health and well-being of the people. Aim: To study the effectiveness of psycho-educational program to alleviate depression, anxiety, stress, pessimism and provide optimism for COVID-19 isolation nurses. Design: A quasi-experimental two-group (randomized control trial) was utilized in this study. Participants: A purposive sample of sixty nurses were involved in this study. Tools: A constructed interview schedule was utilized to collect data; Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21; and Optimism and Pessimism Scale. The training program consisted of 14 sessions. Results: Revealed that there were highly statistically significant relations between depression, anxiety, stress, and pessimism pre/post program in "experimental group". Also, there were statistically significant relations between pessimism and anxiety among the control group pre/post observations. Conclusion: The program had a great positive effect on nurses who were caring for patients infected with coronavirus in reduced "levels of stress, anxiety, depression, pessimism and increased level of optimism". Recommendations: The nursing staff must be prepared to challenge any pandemic in the future to alleviate their levels of depression, anxiety, stress pessimism, and provide optimism and feelings of hope.

Background: Limit setting strategies were used to enhance patients" sense of self and to make sure that the patients are mentally stable and able to control their emotion and behavior. The nurse use limit setting as tools to prevent disruptive behavior, resentment, anger, and burnout and provide quality of care for all patients. Aim:The current study was aiming to explore psychiatric patients' and nurses' perspectives about the limit setting strategies in psychiatric hospitals. Study design: A descriptive design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted at the inpatients units of a Psychiatric Hospital at Beni-Suef Governorate, Egypt. Sample: A convenience sample of available 50 nurses and 50 psychiatric patients. Tools for Data Collection: composed of two parts: Part I: The Limit Setting Rules to Deal with Psychiatric Patient. Part II: Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics for the patient and nurse: Results: The results demonstrated that about two third of the psychiatric patients have an inadequate perspectives about limit setting strategies while 62.5% of psychiatric nurses have an adequate perspectives of limit setting strategies. There was highly positive statistical significant relation between psychiatric patients" perspectives and nurses" perspectives about limit setting strategies in a psychiatric hospital. Conclusion: It can be concluded that most of studied psychiatric patients have an inadequate perspectives about limit setting while more than two third of the studied nurses' have an adequate perspectives about the limit setting, with a highly positive statistically significant relation between psychiatric patients" and nurses" perspectives about limit setting strategies. Recommendations: It can be recommended that the patients with psychiatric disorders should have adequate explanation concerning limit setting strategies, which emphasized its therapeutic purposes and consequences are a requirement; to alter misconceptions, they obtained about limit setting.

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Background: Family and school conditions have been reliably connected to aggression issues in adolescence. Aim: Assessing effect of family relations and school environment on aggressive behavior of school age students, exploring the difference between adolescence aggressive behavior in relation to teaching environment and family relation. Design: A descriptive, cross-sectional design was utilized. Setting: The study was conducted at two randomly selected preparatory governmental schools affiliated to Al-Sayeda Zeinab educational directorate, Cairo, Egypt. Sample: A purposive sample of 180 adolescents in selected preparatory schools was included in the study. Tools: Five tools were used, 1) Socio-demographic data sheet for students, 2) Socio-demographic data sheet for parents, 3) Aggressive Behavior Scale, 4) Brief Family Relationship Scale and 5) School Climate Scale. Results: Showed that there were "statistical significant differences" between father and mother educational characteristics and methods of home punishment. Also, there was a significant statistical relationship between family relations and aggressive behavior of children. Conclusion:A significant statistical relationship between family relations and aggressive behavior of children. Also, a significant statistical relationship was found between school environment and aggressive behavior of children. Also, a significant statistical relationship was revealed between aggressive behavior of children and socio-demographic characteristics of their parents. Recommendations: Psycho-educational programs about impulsivity, aggression, family relations will be important to increase students and parents' awareness about behavioral competencies and challenges.

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