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Papers by Dr. Mona Megahed
Back ground: Orientation programs are known to be a key element for the successful career of newl... more Back ground: Orientation programs are known to be a key element for the successful career of newly graduated nurses. An effective orientation program can offer the novel nurse with significant confidence in her clinical skills and decision-making, which results in job satisfaction. Methods: The study was conducted at College of Applied medical science for females, King Khalid University, Mohayil, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This was a study with one group pretest and post test design. The sampling technique adopted for this study was purposive sampling. The participants in this study were 30 newly graduated students. The self administered questionnaire which was prepared by the investigator was used for data collection. It contains 25 questions in two sections. The questionnaire has been administered to the nurse interns before the programmes starts, it was considered as pretest. After the programme same questionnaire has been distributed and it was considered as post test. Result: All...
Background: Mothers' satisfaction about nursing care during pregnancy, labor and puerperium i... more Background: Mothers' satisfaction about nursing care during pregnancy, labor and puerperium is a quality indicator. Nursing students are a part of nursing staff whose responsibilities are to care of mothers and achieve their expectations. Objectives: To evaluate maternal attitude and satisfaction towards involvement of nursing students in their care. Methods: A hospital based crosssectional study was conducted throughout the period from February to April 2018, at Mohayil General Hospital, Saudi Arabia. 100 mothers who purposively selected were the study sample. Three tools of data collection were used: Interviewing questionnaire, Likert Attitude Scale with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.964) and Patient satisfaction scale (Risser, 1975), its reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.910) Results: Mothers' mean age was 31.7. The majority of mothers (61%) were fairly satisfied towards care provided by nursing students with low mean score of ...
To assess the level of knowledge and misconceptions regarding hepatitis B and C among Saudi pregn... more To assess the level of knowledge and misconceptions regarding hepatitis B and C among Saudi pregnant women. Methods: This descriptive study was carried out in the obstetric department, Mohail hospital, Saudi Arabia, from December 2010 to March 2011. The pre-designed questionnaire consisted of 35 statements about hepatitis B and C (risk factors, mode of transmission, immunization and prevention) and was completed by a total number of 126 pregnant women who were randomly selected. Results: Out of 126 women only 34.9% had satisfactory knowledge towards HBV and HCV. There is statistical significant relation between women’s level of education, number of parity and their level of knowledge (p <0.001). Misconceptions regarding HCV and HBV were very common among the study sample that 59.5% , 57.9%, 45.2% respectively consider family genetics, the general toilet in markets and foods as risk factors for infection. Conclusion: The study findings reflects that there is unsatisfactory knowled...
Student motivation is a vital determinant of academic performance and achievement, Motivation to ... more Student motivation is a vital determinant of academic performance and achievement, Motivation to select nursing as a career is guided by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors, Quality of life of medical field students and their motivation to learn are vital factors that have impact on their ability to learn, they need to ensure a functional level of quality of life if they are to maintain their motivation. Objective: evaluate correlation between nursing students’ academic motivation to study nursing and their Health-Related Quality of Life. Methods: descriptive study was conducted during the second semester of academic year 2014/2015, at college of applied medical sciences, king Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. The total study sample was 239 female nursing students selected randomly from different academic levels. Three tools of data collection were used: Interviewing questionnaire, "MOS-SF 36 (version 1.0) with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.872) and A...
Professor-M edical surgical department, college of applied medical sciences-M ohail Assir, King K... more Professor-M edical surgical department, college of applied medical sciences-M ohail Assir, King Khalid University 3 Lecturer of M aternity and pediatric department, college of applied medical sciences-M ohail Assir, king Khalid university
Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine
Abstract: Background: Mothers' satisfaction about nursing care during pregnancy, labor and puerpe... more Abstract: Background: Mothers' satisfaction about nursing care during pregnancy, labor and puerperium is a quality indicator.
Nursing students are a part of nursing staff whose responsibilities are to care of mothers and achieve their expectations. Objectives: To
evaluate maternal attitude and satisfaction towards involvement of nursing students in their care. Methods: A hospital based crosssectional
study was conducted throughout the period from February to April 2018, at Mohayil General Hospital, Saudi Arabia. 100
mothers who purposively selected were the study sample. Three tools of data collection were used: Interviewing questionnaire, Likert
Attitude Scale with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.964) and Patient satisfaction scale (Risser, 1975), its reliability
(Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.910) Results: Mothers' mean age was 31.7. The majority of mothers (61%) were fairly satisfied
towards care provided by nursing students with low mean score of total satisfaction scale (2.60+0.65) and more than half of mothers
(63%) had negative attitude towards involvement of nursing students in their care. The results represented a highly positive significant
correlation between the mean score of mothers’ attitude and satisfaction. Conclusion: The study findings reflected that the nursing care
delivered by the nursing students at the hospital is deficient and the mothers are not much satisfied and had negative attitude. The study
recommended further research to find out the barriers leads to maternal negative attitude towards nursing students' involvement in their
care
Keywords: Mother's Satisfaction, Attitude, Involvement, Nursing Students
Background: E-Learning is a computer based educational tool that can be delivered anytime and any... more Background: E-Learning is a computer based educational tool that can be delivered anytime and anywhere. It is rapidly increasing in nursing education and enables students to engage in exciting ways of learning through collaboration and serves to develop and implement technology that improves every aspect of education. Objective: to explore the undergraduate nursing students' perceived knowledge, attitude and usage of E-learning and Blackboard learning systems.
Back ground: Orientation programs are known to be a key element for the successful career of newl... more Back ground: Orientation programs are known to be a key element for the successful career of newly graduated nurses. An effective orientation program can offer the novel nurse with significant confidence in her clinical skills and decision-making, which results in job satisfaction. Result: All the participants in this study were females in age range from 22-26 yrs, with a mean age of 23.5 yrs. Comparison of pre and post test score knowledge of Nurse Interns has been done by using paired t test. The result stated that the difference in pre and post test is considered to be extremely statistically significant (p<0.0001) and programme was effective. Conclusion: The orientation programme is an important aspect in the transition from student to the nurse which gives them confidence, job satisfaction, and competence. Every institution is responsible for guiding the new nurse to provide such opportunities for learning.
Background: Student motivation is a vital determinant of academic performance and achievement, Mo... more Background: Student motivation is a vital determinant of academic performance and achievement, Motivation to select nursing as a career is guided by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors, Quality of life of medical field students and their motivation to learn are vital factors that have impact on their ability to learn, they need to ensure a functional level of quality of life if they are to maintain their motivation. Objective: evaluate correlation between nursing students' academic motivation to study nursing and their Health-Related Quality of Life. Methods: descriptive study was conducted during the second semester of academic year 2014/2015, at college of applied medical sciences, king Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. The total study sample was 239 female nursing students selected randomly from different academic levels. Three tools of data collection were used: Interviewing questionnaire, "MOS-SF 36 (version 1.0) with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.872) and Academic Motivation Scale (AMS-C28), its reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0. 809). Results: students' mean age was 20.68 with mean GPA 3.59, mean course load per week 15.8, mean hands-on training hours per week was 7.1. The results shown lowered mean scores of HRQOL eight health domains and academic motivation among study sample, GPA was found positively correlate to general health (r=.274, p=0.01). Hands-on training hours positively correlate to pain (r=.129, p=0.05). There are Positive correlation between students 'general health and IM to know (r=.215, p=0.01), IM towards accomplishment (r=147, p=0.05), EM – identified regulation (r=.189, p=0.01). Pain negatively correlate to motivation (r=-.228, p=0.01). Conclusion: The study findings reflect lowered scores of motivation and HRQOL eight health domains between the female nursing students, there are positive correlations between nursing students' general health, emotional wellbeing, energy &fatigue and their intrinsic motivation to know and extrinsic motivation. Counseling programs are recommended to improve nursing students' motivation and quality of life throughout academic study years to able them help others in the future. [Mona Mohamed Megahed Elbsuony. Correlation between Academic Motivation to Study Nursing and Health-Related Quality of Life among Nursing Students. J Am Sci 2016;12(12):95-103]. ISSN 1545-1003 (print); ISSN 2375-7264 (online). http://www.jofamericanscience.org. 13.
Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 2014
Background: Cooperative learning means method which learners work in a small group member and tak... more Background: Cooperative learning means method which learners work in a small group member and take advantages of each other's expertise to achieve a common goal, and promote higher self-esteem which is an important quality and an attribute considered as specific requirement for better performance and interpersonal success.
international journal of nursing sciences
Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) is a broad multidimensional concept that typically encompa... more Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) is a broad multidimensional concept that typically encompasses self-reported measures of physical and mental health. HRQOL encompasses several domains to include functional ability, psychological state, social function, and an individual's perception of his or her health.
Objective: Evaluate quality of life among university students and Compare differences of quality of life domains across males and females. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was conducted among randomly selected 286 Saudi students from both sexes. From December 2011 to March 2012 among students at community college, applied medical sciences college and education college, king Khalid University. Two tools were used for data collection named interview questionnaire sheet covered socio demographic data and "MOS-SF 36 (version 1.0).Results: 57%of study sample aged 21-24 years, 65.4% were female students, and 90.6% were single, lowered mean scores in most of eight health domains among study sample. There is a significant difference between study sample sex, type of education and their eight heath domains. Conclusion: The study findings reflect poorer health related quality of life among study sample; female students had lower scores than male.
Key words: Health -Related Quality Of Life, MOS-SF 36, university student
Objective: to evaluate effect of nursing awareness guidelines on nurses' compliance regarding car... more Objective: to evaluate effect of nursing awareness guidelines on nurses' compliance regarding care of pregnant women suffering from hepatitis c virus . Methods: The present study was quasi experimental study conducted over a period of 9 months from March 2012 to November 2012 at obstetrics and gynecology hospital-Ain Shams University. Four tools of data collection were used: structure interview questionnaire, observational performance checklist , Likart attitude scale and supportive material in form of Arabic booklet guidelines . The study completed by purposeful sample of total number of 47 nurses. Results: nurses' mean age was 37.2+ 7.23. The results showed improvement of nurses' knowledge, compliance and attitude total score regarding care of pregnant woman with hepatitis c post guidelines. There was significant positive correlation between nurses' knowledge score and their compliance(r = 0.334, p = 0.022), attitude post guidelines(r = 0.481, p = 0.001). Conclusion: the current study reflected that there is poor knowledge, noncompliance and negative attitude before guidelines. Significance improvement in nurses' knowledge, compliance and attitude was detected post guidelines. Booklets and brochures about hepatitis c which cover up to date information must be available for nurses in all hospital departments in addition to continuous training courses.
Breast cancer is currently the top cancer in wo men in the entire world, the most common cancer s... more Breast cancer is currently the top cancer in wo men in the entire world, the most common cancer site in the 13 administrative regions of Saudi Arabia was breast cancer the leading cancer among wo men. Cerv ical cancer ranks as the 2nd most frequent cancer in women between 15-44years of age. Incidence of cervical cancer in Saudi Arabia was 4.6 per 100.000 wo men. Our aim to evaluate level of knowledge regarding cervical and breast cancer among young females. A cross -sectional study was conducted fro m young females at science& Art Co llege and health science college. Interviewing structured questionnaire was used to collect data.; the questionnaire divided into three parts covered socio demographic data, breast cancer knowledge and cervical cancer knowledge among 215 students' with different age, parity and marital status were selected randomly. Out of 215 female student mean age was 22.6(9.4), 58% of study sample had unsatisfactory level of knowledge regard ing cervical and breast cancer, only 21.9% Know HPV vaccine, Television and radio were the most frequent 74.9%, 59.5% source of knowledge about breast and cervical cancer among study sample. In conclusion more efforts must be focused in provide proper education and reassurance our young females about danger health issues .
Nursing students suffer high levels of stress and anxiety during their education experiences. Cli... more Nursing students suffer high levels of stress and anxiety during their education experiences. Clin ical training and first exposure in hospital clin ical training field mo re stress than class experiences. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceived level of stress and anxiety in undergraduate nursing students. In this cross-sectional study, data were obtained from 30 students using a self-ad ministered questionnaire "The zung anxiety status inventory (ASI), zung self-rating depression scale". Prevalence of Normal range of depression level was 90%, mildly depressed 6.7% and moderately depressed about 3.3%. Ho wever the Zung an xiety status inventory reported only 6.7% of the student had marked to severe anxiety levels. Significant variation in an xiety status was evident with the anxiety scores were ranked as mild or moderate in 53.3% of students. These findings call fo r introduction of stress management programs and psychiatric care into nursing health services of the University.
Conference Presentations by Dr. Mona Megahed
Back ground: Orientation programs are known to be a key element for the successful career of newl... more Back ground: Orientation programs are known to be a key element for the successful career of newly graduated nurses. An effective orientation program can offer the novel nurse with significant confidence in her clinical skills and decision-making, which results in job satisfaction. Methods: The study was conducted at College of Applied medical science for females, King Khalid University, Mohayil, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This was a study with one group pretest and post test design. The sampling technique adopted for this study was purposive sampling. The participants in this study were 30 newly graduated students. The self administered questionnaire which was prepared by the investigator was used for data collection. It contains 25 questions in two sections. The questionnaire has been administered to the nurse interns before the programmes starts, it was considered as pretest. After the programme same questionnaire has been distributed and it was considered as post test. Result: All...
Background: Mothers' satisfaction about nursing care during pregnancy, labor and puerperium i... more Background: Mothers' satisfaction about nursing care during pregnancy, labor and puerperium is a quality indicator. Nursing students are a part of nursing staff whose responsibilities are to care of mothers and achieve their expectations. Objectives: To evaluate maternal attitude and satisfaction towards involvement of nursing students in their care. Methods: A hospital based crosssectional study was conducted throughout the period from February to April 2018, at Mohayil General Hospital, Saudi Arabia. 100 mothers who purposively selected were the study sample. Three tools of data collection were used: Interviewing questionnaire, Likert Attitude Scale with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.964) and Patient satisfaction scale (Risser, 1975), its reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.910) Results: Mothers' mean age was 31.7. The majority of mothers (61%) were fairly satisfied towards care provided by nursing students with low mean score of ...
To assess the level of knowledge and misconceptions regarding hepatitis B and C among Saudi pregn... more To assess the level of knowledge and misconceptions regarding hepatitis B and C among Saudi pregnant women. Methods: This descriptive study was carried out in the obstetric department, Mohail hospital, Saudi Arabia, from December 2010 to March 2011. The pre-designed questionnaire consisted of 35 statements about hepatitis B and C (risk factors, mode of transmission, immunization and prevention) and was completed by a total number of 126 pregnant women who were randomly selected. Results: Out of 126 women only 34.9% had satisfactory knowledge towards HBV and HCV. There is statistical significant relation between women’s level of education, number of parity and their level of knowledge (p <0.001). Misconceptions regarding HCV and HBV were very common among the study sample that 59.5% , 57.9%, 45.2% respectively consider family genetics, the general toilet in markets and foods as risk factors for infection. Conclusion: The study findings reflects that there is unsatisfactory knowled...
Student motivation is a vital determinant of academic performance and achievement, Motivation to ... more Student motivation is a vital determinant of academic performance and achievement, Motivation to select nursing as a career is guided by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors, Quality of life of medical field students and their motivation to learn are vital factors that have impact on their ability to learn, they need to ensure a functional level of quality of life if they are to maintain their motivation. Objective: evaluate correlation between nursing students’ academic motivation to study nursing and their Health-Related Quality of Life. Methods: descriptive study was conducted during the second semester of academic year 2014/2015, at college of applied medical sciences, king Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. The total study sample was 239 female nursing students selected randomly from different academic levels. Three tools of data collection were used: Interviewing questionnaire, "MOS-SF 36 (version 1.0) with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.872) and A...
Professor-M edical surgical department, college of applied medical sciences-M ohail Assir, King K... more Professor-M edical surgical department, college of applied medical sciences-M ohail Assir, King Khalid University 3 Lecturer of M aternity and pediatric department, college of applied medical sciences-M ohail Assir, king Khalid university
Journal of Health Sciences and Medicine
Abstract: Background: Mothers' satisfaction about nursing care during pregnancy, labor and puerpe... more Abstract: Background: Mothers' satisfaction about nursing care during pregnancy, labor and puerperium is a quality indicator.
Nursing students are a part of nursing staff whose responsibilities are to care of mothers and achieve their expectations. Objectives: To
evaluate maternal attitude and satisfaction towards involvement of nursing students in their care. Methods: A hospital based crosssectional
study was conducted throughout the period from February to April 2018, at Mohayil General Hospital, Saudi Arabia. 100
mothers who purposively selected were the study sample. Three tools of data collection were used: Interviewing questionnaire, Likert
Attitude Scale with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.964) and Patient satisfaction scale (Risser, 1975), its reliability
(Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.910) Results: Mothers' mean age was 31.7. The majority of mothers (61%) were fairly satisfied
towards care provided by nursing students with low mean score of total satisfaction scale (2.60+0.65) and more than half of mothers
(63%) had negative attitude towards involvement of nursing students in their care. The results represented a highly positive significant
correlation between the mean score of mothers’ attitude and satisfaction. Conclusion: The study findings reflected that the nursing care
delivered by the nursing students at the hospital is deficient and the mothers are not much satisfied and had negative attitude. The study
recommended further research to find out the barriers leads to maternal negative attitude towards nursing students' involvement in their
care
Keywords: Mother's Satisfaction, Attitude, Involvement, Nursing Students
Background: E-Learning is a computer based educational tool that can be delivered anytime and any... more Background: E-Learning is a computer based educational tool that can be delivered anytime and anywhere. It is rapidly increasing in nursing education and enables students to engage in exciting ways of learning through collaboration and serves to develop and implement technology that improves every aspect of education. Objective: to explore the undergraduate nursing students' perceived knowledge, attitude and usage of E-learning and Blackboard learning systems.
Back ground: Orientation programs are known to be a key element for the successful career of newl... more Back ground: Orientation programs are known to be a key element for the successful career of newly graduated nurses. An effective orientation program can offer the novel nurse with significant confidence in her clinical skills and decision-making, which results in job satisfaction. Result: All the participants in this study were females in age range from 22-26 yrs, with a mean age of 23.5 yrs. Comparison of pre and post test score knowledge of Nurse Interns has been done by using paired t test. The result stated that the difference in pre and post test is considered to be extremely statistically significant (p<0.0001) and programme was effective. Conclusion: The orientation programme is an important aspect in the transition from student to the nurse which gives them confidence, job satisfaction, and competence. Every institution is responsible for guiding the new nurse to provide such opportunities for learning.
Background: Student motivation is a vital determinant of academic performance and achievement, Mo... more Background: Student motivation is a vital determinant of academic performance and achievement, Motivation to select nursing as a career is guided by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors, Quality of life of medical field students and their motivation to learn are vital factors that have impact on their ability to learn, they need to ensure a functional level of quality of life if they are to maintain their motivation. Objective: evaluate correlation between nursing students' academic motivation to study nursing and their Health-Related Quality of Life. Methods: descriptive study was conducted during the second semester of academic year 2014/2015, at college of applied medical sciences, king Khalid University, Saudi Arabia. The total study sample was 239 female nursing students selected randomly from different academic levels. Three tools of data collection were used: Interviewing questionnaire, "MOS-SF 36 (version 1.0) with high reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0.872) and Academic Motivation Scale (AMS-C28), its reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient r = 0. 809). Results: students' mean age was 20.68 with mean GPA 3.59, mean course load per week 15.8, mean hands-on training hours per week was 7.1. The results shown lowered mean scores of HRQOL eight health domains and academic motivation among study sample, GPA was found positively correlate to general health (r=.274, p=0.01). Hands-on training hours positively correlate to pain (r=.129, p=0.05). There are Positive correlation between students 'general health and IM to know (r=.215, p=0.01), IM towards accomplishment (r=147, p=0.05), EM – identified regulation (r=.189, p=0.01). Pain negatively correlate to motivation (r=-.228, p=0.01). Conclusion: The study findings reflect lowered scores of motivation and HRQOL eight health domains between the female nursing students, there are positive correlations between nursing students' general health, emotional wellbeing, energy &fatigue and their intrinsic motivation to know and extrinsic motivation. Counseling programs are recommended to improve nursing students' motivation and quality of life throughout academic study years to able them help others in the future. [Mona Mohamed Megahed Elbsuony. Correlation between Academic Motivation to Study Nursing and Health-Related Quality of Life among Nursing Students. J Am Sci 2016;12(12):95-103]. ISSN 1545-1003 (print); ISSN 2375-7264 (online). http://www.jofamericanscience.org. 13.
Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 2014
Background: Cooperative learning means method which learners work in a small group member and tak... more Background: Cooperative learning means method which learners work in a small group member and take advantages of each other's expertise to achieve a common goal, and promote higher self-esteem which is an important quality and an attribute considered as specific requirement for better performance and interpersonal success.
international journal of nursing sciences
Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) is a broad multidimensional concept that typically encompa... more Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) is a broad multidimensional concept that typically encompasses self-reported measures of physical and mental health. HRQOL encompasses several domains to include functional ability, psychological state, social function, and an individual's perception of his or her health.
Objective: Evaluate quality of life among university students and Compare differences of quality of life domains across males and females. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was conducted among randomly selected 286 Saudi students from both sexes. From December 2011 to March 2012 among students at community college, applied medical sciences college and education college, king Khalid University. Two tools were used for data collection named interview questionnaire sheet covered socio demographic data and "MOS-SF 36 (version 1.0).Results: 57%of study sample aged 21-24 years, 65.4% were female students, and 90.6% were single, lowered mean scores in most of eight health domains among study sample. There is a significant difference between study sample sex, type of education and their eight heath domains. Conclusion: The study findings reflect poorer health related quality of life among study sample; female students had lower scores than male.
Key words: Health -Related Quality Of Life, MOS-SF 36, university student
Objective: to evaluate effect of nursing awareness guidelines on nurses' compliance regarding car... more Objective: to evaluate effect of nursing awareness guidelines on nurses' compliance regarding care of pregnant women suffering from hepatitis c virus . Methods: The present study was quasi experimental study conducted over a period of 9 months from March 2012 to November 2012 at obstetrics and gynecology hospital-Ain Shams University. Four tools of data collection were used: structure interview questionnaire, observational performance checklist , Likart attitude scale and supportive material in form of Arabic booklet guidelines . The study completed by purposeful sample of total number of 47 nurses. Results: nurses' mean age was 37.2+ 7.23. The results showed improvement of nurses' knowledge, compliance and attitude total score regarding care of pregnant woman with hepatitis c post guidelines. There was significant positive correlation between nurses' knowledge score and their compliance(r = 0.334, p = 0.022), attitude post guidelines(r = 0.481, p = 0.001). Conclusion: the current study reflected that there is poor knowledge, noncompliance and negative attitude before guidelines. Significance improvement in nurses' knowledge, compliance and attitude was detected post guidelines. Booklets and brochures about hepatitis c which cover up to date information must be available for nurses in all hospital departments in addition to continuous training courses.
Breast cancer is currently the top cancer in wo men in the entire world, the most common cancer s... more Breast cancer is currently the top cancer in wo men in the entire world, the most common cancer site in the 13 administrative regions of Saudi Arabia was breast cancer the leading cancer among wo men. Cerv ical cancer ranks as the 2nd most frequent cancer in women between 15-44years of age. Incidence of cervical cancer in Saudi Arabia was 4.6 per 100.000 wo men. Our aim to evaluate level of knowledge regarding cervical and breast cancer among young females. A cross -sectional study was conducted fro m young females at science& Art Co llege and health science college. Interviewing structured questionnaire was used to collect data.; the questionnaire divided into three parts covered socio demographic data, breast cancer knowledge and cervical cancer knowledge among 215 students' with different age, parity and marital status were selected randomly. Out of 215 female student mean age was 22.6(9.4), 58% of study sample had unsatisfactory level of knowledge regard ing cervical and breast cancer, only 21.9% Know HPV vaccine, Television and radio were the most frequent 74.9%, 59.5% source of knowledge about breast and cervical cancer among study sample. In conclusion more efforts must be focused in provide proper education and reassurance our young females about danger health issues .
Nursing students suffer high levels of stress and anxiety during their education experiences. Cli... more Nursing students suffer high levels of stress and anxiety during their education experiences. Clin ical training and first exposure in hospital clin ical training field mo re stress than class experiences. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the perceived level of stress and anxiety in undergraduate nursing students. In this cross-sectional study, data were obtained from 30 students using a self-ad ministered questionnaire "The zung anxiety status inventory (ASI), zung self-rating depression scale". Prevalence of Normal range of depression level was 90%, mildly depressed 6.7% and moderately depressed about 3.3%. Ho wever the Zung an xiety status inventory reported only 6.7% of the student had marked to severe anxiety levels. Significant variation in an xiety status was evident with the anxiety scores were ranked as mild or moderate in 53.3% of students. These findings call fo r introduction of stress management programs and psychiatric care into nursing health services of the University.