Background: Zika virus has potential to cause a pandemic so it becomes a major public health concern worldwide. Even if its effect on adults is commonly mild, Zika creates expressive risks for developing fetuses of infected women during pregnancy. The present study is quasi-experimental study aiming to examine the impact of Zika Virus Infection educational program for pregnant women on their knowledge, attitude and practice before and after applying for the program.Setting: The study was performed at antenatal clinics in maternal and child health care center at Benha city from the beginning of August 2015 until October2015. The study sample consisted of105 pregnant women simple randomly included in the study. The data was collected through a structured Interviewing questionnaire for the mother to assess the level of women's knowledge attitude and reported practice related to ZIK virus were assessed before and after the program. The results revealed that there was a significant improvement in the nurses' knowledge score about Meaning, causative agent, Vaccine, symptoms, complications, investigations, and management of Zika virus; moreover, there was an improvement in total reported practices about Zika tends to rise.Conclusion: There was an improvement in knowledge, attitude, and practice of the participant's post-program. Based on the results of the study recommended that: Health education to pregnant women about the Zika virus should be included in the antenatal health education program as well as the need for additional public health messaging to avoid it.

Background: Digital drug abuse has recently been approached as an urging topic endangering Middle Eastern teenager through different media channels. This approach raised a lot of discussion and speculations among health practitioners, especially toxicologists, psychiatrists and community health practitioners. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of digital drugs educational program on nursing students' knowledge and attitude at Benha University. A Quasi-experimental design was used to conduct this study, at Faculty of Nursing Benha University during the period from October 2017 to December 2017 then from March 2018 to May 2018. Subjects: A purposive sample of 313 students selected according to study formula based on the total number of students during the academic year 2017-2018. Tools: Two tools were utilized for data collection. The Tool I-A Self-administrated Questionnaire was developed. Tool II-A Likert scale to assess nursing student"s attitude regarding digital drugs. Results: There were statistically significant differences between the mean students" knowledge scores and attitude of pre-program and post-program(P<0.001). Also, a highly statistically significant positive association was found among the studied students" knowledge and attitude pre and post-program. Conclusion: The result showed the effectiveness of an educational program on improving students" knowledge and attitude regarding the digital drug. Recommendation: There was an urgent need for educational programs for all nursing undergraduate as well as teenagers to prepare them to oversee their awareness around the digital drug.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder causing family stress. Increasing awareness about ASD will improve the mothers' engagement with their children and help them bear the stress effect of this disorder. Aim: To evaluate Saudi women's knowledge and attitude regarding ASD at Tabuk University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Design: Descriptive design was utilized to fulfill the purpose of the study. Setting: This study was done at 5 colleges of Tabuk University, with a female section (applied medical sciences, science, medicine, business administration, computing and information technology) representing 25% of Tabuk University colleges. Sample: A convenience sample of women in the previous colleges (90) was taken according to inclusion criteria. Three data collection tools were used; 1) A self-administrated questionnaire sheet, including sociodemographic data. 2) Knowledge quiz 3) ASD attitude scale: to assess the attitude of women as regards ASD. Results: The participants mean age was 36.23 years, and although 52.2 % of women were inadequate knowledge, more than half of participants 53.3% were positive attitude regarding ASD. A statistically positive correlation is between the participants' knowledge and their attitude. Social status, educational level & women's work experience are significantly related to their knowledge about ASD (p< 0.05). Conclusion: Inadequate knowledge regarding ASD was prevalent among the current study participants. At the same time, most of them had a positive attitude toward ASD. Therefore, health education campaigns must be enhanced to improve knowledge and attitude about ASD.

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