Background: Emotion regulation is a term used to describe a person's capability to efficiently manage and respond to an emotional experience especially during time of stress. The analysis of how newcomer nursing students regulate their emotions and its' impact on their psychological wellbeing is a crucial important. Aim: assessed difficulties of emotional regulation and psychological well-being of newcomer nursing students, and discovered the relation between them. Setting: Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University in Tanta city, Egypt. Subject: 387 Newcomer nursing students at the first year academically of Faculty of Nursing. Research design: the present study has followed descriptive correlation design. Tools: two tools were used for data collection; tool one was Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Tool two was Ruff Psychological well-being Scale, in addition to socio-demographic data. Result: the current study showed that the newcomer nursing students had moderate levels of difficulties in emotional regulations and psychological well-being. There was a statically negative correlation between psychological well-being and difficulties of emotions regulation. Conclusion: more difficulties in regulating emotions leads to more decrease in students' psychological well -being. Recommendation: Educational training program should be prepare for learning and training new nursing students strategies to improve their emotional regulations, and well-being.
Caring for and working with client with auditory hallucination can be a challenge for undergraduate student nurses do not get a degree in psychiatric nursing. Facilitating a degree of understanding of these acute states distress is usually most effectively provided in the clinical environment. Empathy is basic for understanding, shared meaning, and mutual trust that lie as the heart of therapeutic nurse-patient relationship. This study aimed to evaluate psychiatric simulation program on nursing students' empathy' toward auditory hallucinating patients. The study followed a quasi-experimental design and was carried out in two settings; the class room at the Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, and Tanta mental Health Hospital that is affiliated to the Ministry of health. The study subjects include 48 nursing students who were enrolled in psychiatric nursing educational course. Tools: tool (1) of this study was Empathy scale; it was developed by Davis MH. Tool (2) was open end questions were developed by researchers to elicited information about; the subjects emotions that arousal during hearing simulated voices in the program, ways of their coping with these simulated voices, opinion about the effective coping methods, and their perception toward auditory hallucinating patients after the program. The main results refer to; increased level of student nurses' empathy in it's multidimensional after the psychiatric simulation program. It was concluded that the psychiatric simulation program in the present study help students to learn how to be empathetic with patients with auditory hallucination, so it was recommended that: the psychiatric simulation program that was applied in this study to be implemented with students' nurses that enrolled in psychiatric nursing educational course at faculties of nursing.
Background: Adolescence is a crucial phase of human life. They are more vulnerable to the psychological effect of COVID-19 epidemic than adults because of their immature cognitive and emotional regulation systems and tend to show more negative outcomes. Aim of study: to investigate the effect of Bio-Psycho-Educational health program on adolescents' knowledge, anxiety and coping toward COVID-19 pandemic induced stress. Research design: comparative quasi experimental research design was used. Setting: The study was conducted through online educational channels for preparatory and secondary school adolescent girls at El-Monoufia governorate-Egypt and Yanbau governorate, Saudi Arabia. Sample: A multistage cluster sampling for selecting schools then a stratified random sample for selecting 400 adolescent students' girls (200 Egyptian and 200 Saudi) was drawn. Tools:online questionnaire was designed and involved the followings, Tool one: A structured interview questionnaire was designed by the investigator and consisted of two parts; (1) socio-demographic characteristics of studied adolescents and (2) adolescents' knowledge about COVID-19 pandemic. Tool Two: State-Anxiety Inventory for Adults. Tool Three: Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation. Results: There was a statistical significant improvement among studied Egyptian and Saudi adolescents regarding their knowledge, anxiety and coping regarding COVID-19 induced stress before and after the program (P=<0.001). Conclusion: the implementation of the Bio-psycho-educational program improved adolescents' knowledge, decreased their anxiety, and promoted their effective coping regarding COVID9-pandemic induced stress.
Recommendations:Bio-psycho-educational health programs should be importantly designed and implemented for adolescent students to improve their knowledge, alleviating their anxiety and promote their coping on the basis of actual physical and mental needs in facing COVID-19 Pandemic and other similar health crisis.
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