Nurses are more susceptible to stress compared to other nurses and they are in need to use many coping strategies to help them to cope with stress. Aim: To investigate the association between perceived stress and coping strategies among nurses in intensive care units. Research Design: A descriptive research design was used in the current research. Setting: The study was applied in five intensive care units include the pediatric intensive care unit (ICU), general at Sohag University Hospital, and the obstetric critical care unit, general and pediatric intensive care unit at South-Valley University Hospital. Subjects: A convenient sample was used in this research which included all the nurses in the previously mentioned setting (70 nurses). Tools for data collection: Tool I: Self-administered questionnaire. Tool II: Perceived Stress Scale-10 (PSS-10) and Tool III: the Brief COPE Inventory. Results: The majority of the nurses reported a moderate stress level and one-quarter of them reported a severe level of stress. There was a highly statistically significant relationship between perceived stress and coping strategies in intensive care unit nurses. Conclusion: It was found that using a variety of coping strategies can be effective in reducing stress among nurses in intensive care units. Recommendation: Raising awareness and education of the nurses in intensive care units regarding coping strategies to help them cope with stress.
Background: Despite all the efforts that have been made to fasten vaccine development many critical care nurses staff were worried and hesitated from the vaccine. Aim of the study: is to assess critical care nurses perception of covid-19 vaccines and its side effects at Upper Egypt. Sample: 2429 critical care nurses from five Upper Egypt Governorates, Minia, Assiut, Sohage, Qena and Aswan. Tools: the study included two tools, Critical Care Nurses' knowledge questionnaire and Critical Care Nurses' attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccine. Result: the included ICU's nurses 88.4% of them were under the age of 29 years, and 57.8 % had a technical institute of nursing. Regarding to the nurses' knowledge it was noticed that 79.5 % of the nurses believed that taking COVID-19 vaccine did not provide protection. But 55.2 % critical care nurses had positive attitude toward COVID-19 vaccines. Regarding to the vaccines side effects, sit pain, swelling fever and redness were the most reported manifestations among nurses. Conclusion: critical care nurses had positive attitude about COVID-19 vaccine but hesitated to be vaccinated because of the fear from its side effect. Recommendations: Future research evaluating the side effects of all types covid -19 vaccines in all Egypt.
Background: First aid becomes the essential phase and urgent intervention to carry out by general people about the spot of the accident. Peer education has been recognized as a valuable tool to giving training for under graduates in first aid which is essential as a primary response in emergency cases. Aim: Evaluate the effects of peer education on the knowledge and practice regarding selected first aid among engineering students at south valley university. Methods: A quasi experimental design (pre and posttest) was conducted on 160 students from the 1 st to 4 th years in the Faculty of Engineering at South Valley University. Two research tools were used in the study: A self-administered questionnaire concerning the socio-demographic characteristics of the studied student, their knowledge about first aid and student's performance checklist regarding the first aid measures. Results: After the application of peer education there were statistically significant changes in mean scores of all items as well as the overall score of knowledge and practice (P-Value < 0.001). Conclusion:The application of peer education has been effective in achieving substantial changes in the knowledge and practices of students regarding first aid procedures. Recommendation: The research proposed the use of peer education in teaching first aid for students in other colleges as well as students in the school setting.
Background: Despite all the efforts that have been made to fasten vaccine development many critical care nurses staff were worried and hesitated from the vaccine. Aim of the study: is to assess critical care nurses perception of covid-19 vaccines and its side effects at Upper Egypt. Sample: 2429 critical care nurses from five Upper Egypt Governorates, Minia, Assiut, Sohage, Qena and Aswan. Tools: the study included two tools, Critical Care Nurses' knowledge questionnaire and Critical Care Nurses' attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccine. Result: the included ICU's nurses 88.4% of them were under the age of 29 years, and 57.8 % had a technical institute of nursing. Regarding to the nurses' knowledge it was noticed that 79.5 % of the nurses believed that taking COVID-19 vaccine did not provide protection. But 55.2 % critical care nurses had positive attitude toward COVID-19 vaccines. Regarding to the vaccines side effects, sit pain, swelling fever and redness were the most reported manifestations among nurses. Conclusion: critical care nurses had positive attitude about COVID-19 vaccine but hesitated to be vaccinated because of the fear from its side effect. Recommendations: Future research evaluating the side effects of all types covid -19 vaccines in all Egypt.
Background: COVID-19 is a contagious beefily infectious respiratory disease; it's a public health emergency that performs varying degrees of respiratory, physical and psychological dysfunction. Aim of the study: to evaluate the effect of the rehabilitation program on dyspnea, physical activities and psychological wellbeing among patients with COVID19. Methods: quasi-experimental pretest-posttest study. The study was carried out in intensive care (ICU) and post COVID recovery unit at Qena Respiratory Hospital. A convenience sample of 50 adult patients from both sexes. The study tools; Tool 1: Self-reports Assessment Questionnaire. Tool 2: International Physical Activity Scale Tool 3: psychological symptoms scale. Tool 4: Clinical data base: includes laboratory investigation of lung function and ABGs, addition to chest tomography. Results: A significant statistically difference was found regarding symptoms associated total pain, pain intensity, dyspnea scores, physical activities, and psychological wellbeing of the studied sample between the pre and post assessment at the first week and second week post discharge and after the implementation of the rehabilitation program with p= 0.001. Conclusion: implementation of the rehabilitation program had statistically significant improvement in dyspnea scores, physical activities, anxiety, depression, pulmonary function, and laboratory investigations among patients with COVID 19. Recommendation: rehabilitation programs should be designed and implemented as individualized programs following a comprehensive evaluation.
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