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Background: Urinary tract infection is one of the most common bacterial infections during pregnancy. The aim of this study was to assess knowledge and attitudes of pregnant women regarding urinary tract infection. Research design: A descriptive research design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: The study was conducted at obstetrics and gynecological outpatient clinic affiliated to Benha University Hospital. Sample: A convenient sample used in the study, it included 220 pregnant women. Tools: Three tools were used: A structured interviewing questionnaire, Maternal Knowledge Questionnaire and Likert scale of women attitudes toward urinary tract infection. Results: Less than three quarters of the studied women (70.5%) had average total knowledge about urinary tract infection. majority the studied women (84.1%) had positive attitude about urinary tract infection. There were a highly statistically significance relation between the total knowledge score of the studied women and educational level, occupation, monthly income, residence and family type. Also, there were highly statistically significance relation between the total attitude score of the studied women and income and family type. Conclusion: There was a highly statistically significance relation between the total knowledge score of the studied women and total attitude score. Recommendation: An intensive awareness program should be developed and implemented for pregnant women to avoid urinary tract infection.

Two modern methods of the energy management system (EMS) based on a modified cost function are addressed in this paper. Fuzzy logic (FL) and Harris Hawks Optimization (HHO) is implemented to achieve the optimal performance of seawater desalination plants (SWDP) within the minimum feed-in tariff (FiT). The technical difficulties involved in the variation of energy price from one time to another and the system parameters uncertainties. For example, the price of energy is higher at the peak time and the price is lower at normal times. Also, the peak time can change from one day to another day. The proposed management system can deal with these variations and uncertainty cases. The suggested EMS is achieved through a bidirectional electrical energy interchange approach (π-EEIA). The main concept behind the proposed π-EEIA is how and when to inject the excess generated energy of renewable energy into the utility grid or charge the battery depending on the minimum dynamic cost criterion and vice versa. To accomplish this study a 700 m 3 /day SWDP located in Egypt fed on solar energy and a utility network has been constructed and analyzed. The system includes SWDP fed from a photovoltaic (PV) array as well as the utility grid in addition to a battery energy storage system (BESS). The main objective of this study is the management and coordination between the energy exchange process from the solar energy, the utility network, and BESS to provide sufficient electrical energy for SWDP within the minimum FiT. The system is constructed and validated using the MATLAB/SIMULINK TM software package. The proposed FL and HHO-based EMSs are investigated in the presence of the system uncertainties such as the change in the energy (excess or shortage) as well as the change in the energy price in the utility network (high or low) with (normal or peak) time. The attained results demonstrate that the proposed FL and HHO-based EMSs provide high dynamic performance and accurate coordination between various energy resources and BESS. The results show that FL-based EMS achieves a profit of 10.28 $ but the HHO-based EMS achieves a profit of 10.11 $ in the same period.

Background: Sexual distress impacts women’s mental well-being. Anger/aggression, separation, divorce, and depression may be results of sexual distress. It harms woman’s mental health, in turn, impact the relationship between spouses. Aim: The present study aimed to assess women’s sexual distress associated with cervical cancer. Methods; Design: A descriptive design was used for the current study. Setting: out-patient clinic in the oncology unit at Beni-Suef University Hospital. Subjects: A purposive sample of 70 women. Tools: Data was collected through a structured interviewing questionnaire sheet, female sexual distress scale. Results: The results of the study revealed that 35.7% of women were in the 1st degree when diagnosed, 88.6% of the studied women had sexual distress. There was a statistically significant relationship between the educational level of women, marriage age, and their total sexual distress scores, while there was no relationship between age and residence of women and their total sexual distress scores. Conclusion: Sexual distress was more prevalent among older, less educated, urban dwellers, and those whose age of marriage was less than 20 years old. Recommendations: Preparing health classes for cervical cancer women regarding sexual distress following cervical cancer.

Background: Sexual dysfunction is common gynecological complaint among diabetic women due to its complication effect on sexual function. Aim of this study: Examine the effect of counseling session on female sexual dysfunction regarding diabetic female. Research design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized to carry out this study. Sample: A purposive sample of 132 diabetic women who had sexual dysfunction was recruited in this study. Setting: The study was carried out at six October University Hospital which located at Giza. Tools of data collection: Two tools were used to collect data: (1) Structure interviewing questionnaire to assess female demographic data, medical history and the obstetrical and sexual history (2) Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): The FSFI is a validated 19-item, self-administered, screening questionnaire that measures the aspects of sexual function in women (desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm satisfaction, and pain). Results: The result showed that the mean age of the participant was 34.17 ± 5.5 years. There was no significant relation between some factors such as age, duration of diabetes, marital characteristics, and frequency of sexual dysfunction. Most of participants had enhancement of total FSFI scores post counseling intervention compared to pre counseling intervention Conclusion: Counseling intervention have positive effect on the sexual function enhancement among diabetic female. Recommendation: This study recommended carry out further researches to explore the relations between diabetes and female sexual dysfunction to determine the possible pathway of this association and increase awareness of Egyptians about sexuality through counseling session.