Background: Nursing students, the future nurses, are further inevitably providing healthcare for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in different care settings. The study aim was to explore nursing students' communication, attitude and willingness to care for persons with disabilities. Subjects and Methods: Design: A descriptive design was utilized. Subjects: A purposive sample of 452 undergraduate fourth-year nursing students. Settings: the study was carried out in Faculty of Nursing, Zagazig University, Egypt. Tool of data collection: Four tools were used including a questionnaire sheet of socio-demographic data, communication with disabled patients scale, attitude toward disabled person scale, and willingness to care for patients with disabilities scale. Results: The results revealed that 77.9% of the participants were females and 60.4% of them showed good communication with disabled people. Meanwhile, 51.1% of the students had positive attitude toward persons with disabilities and 49.3% of the nursing students had low level of willingness to care of them. Conclusion: Nursing students have good communication skills and more than half of them showed a positive attitude towards persons with disabilities while more than half of the students are unwilling to provide care for them. Recommendations: Educational interventions for nursing students before starting the internship year are crucial for enhancing their abilities to provide disability-related quality care to such vulnerable group.
Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) refers to recurring and persistent use of internet to engage in online or offline video games often with other players leading to significant impairment or distress. The aim of the present study was to assess prevalence and predictors of internet gaming disorder among adolescents. Design: A cross-sectional descriptive design was utilized. Methods: A sample of 555 adolescents randomly selected by using a multi-stage cluster sampling from preparatory and secondary schools in Zagazig, Minia El Kamh, and Abo Hammad cities, Sharkia Governorate, Egypt. Data were collected by a questionnaire sheet consisted of three parts; socio-demographic data, gaming behaviors, and Internet Gaming Disorder Scale Short-Form (IGDS-SF). Results revealed that the prevalence of internet gaming disorder among the studied adolescents was 7.9%. Also, the results demonstrated that overcrowding, bad relation with fathers, parents limit on gaming time and suffering from chronic disease are statistically significant positive predictors of IGD among adolescents. Conclusion: The prevalence of IGD in this sample was relatively moderate as compared to previous studies and identifies the predictors of those with IGD. Recommendations: Designing and implementing tailored innovative interventions for adolescents with internet gaming disorder.
Background: COVID-19 is an emerging public health problem threatening the life of people globally, especially healthcare providers. Primary health care providers provide the first line of care in communities during health pandemics. Aim of the study was to assess level of concern, compliance, and barriers to use standard precautions among primary health care providers during COVID-19 pandemic. Subjects & Methods: Research design: Descriptive analytical design was utilized to carry out this study. Setting: This study was conducted at all primary health care centers at Al-Mahallah Al-Kubra city, Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: A convenient sample of 350 health care providers working in the selected primary health care centers participated in the study. Data collection tool: A structured self-administrated questionnaire consisted of four parts; personal and work data, level of concern, compliance with infection control standard precautions, and barriers to use standard precautions. Results revealed that the majority of study subjects were female nurses, 73.0% and 27% of them had moderate and high level of concern regarding the COVID-19 pandemic respectively. While 54.9% of the studied healthcare providers had high compliance with standard precautions during COVID-19 pandemic. The highly perceived barriers were increased workload (59.1%), lack of sanitizer alcohol for routine hand hygiene (58.9%), and shortage of health care providers (56.9%). A statistically significant negative correlation was found between health care providers' concern score and their compliance score. Conversely, the concern score had a statistically significant moderate positive correlation with the barrier score. Conclusion: This study concluded that there was high level of concern among health care providers which subsequently could lead to suboptimal health care service and less effective compliance to infection control measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recommendations: Effective approaches should be followed to enhance protection of healthcare providers and minimize their concerns during the pandemic as well as primary health care centers pandemic preparedness is needed.
Respiratory tract infections are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in older adults. This quasi-experimental study aimed to evaluate the effect of an educational intervention on respiratory infections prevention (RIP) in rural older adults. The study sample composed of 80 older adults from a rural area, randomly assigned into two groups. The intervention group ( n = 40) received ten 1-hour twice-weekly sessions and the control group ( n = 40) received no intervention. Pre- and post-intervention assessments were done using measures of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding RIP. Chi-square test, Fisher’s exact test, independent samples t-test, and paired t-test were used for data analysis. The study findings showed that the study intervention resulted in statistically significant improvements in the intervention group’s knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding RIP compared with the control group ( p < .01). The educational intervention was effective and could be used to help rural older adults prevent respiratory infections.
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