Health status of homeless children aged 6-15 years in social care homes in Assiut governorate

In order to explore some of the health hazards among homeless, this study was done to identify the impact of homelessness on the physical, psychosocial health status of sheltered children in Assiut Governorate. It included a total of 161 homeless children aged 6-15 years in social care homes. The mean age of the children was 10.4 +/- 2.4 years, 47.8% were boys and 52.2% were girls. 57.7% were in primary and 34.2% were in the preparatory education. At least one or two health problems were present in every child. The main health problems were skin infections in 18.6%, previous wounds in 22.4% and sweat rash in 23.0%. Past injuries and fracture were present in 9.3%, conjunctivitis in 9.9%, errors of refraction in 3.7%, cough in 20.5%, breathing difficulty in 5.0% and constipation in 25.5%. Parasitic infestation was detected in 18.6% and decayed teeth in 35.4%. About 85% of children spent their leisure time outdoors and with friends. 51.5% visit their relatives, while 27.3% watch TV or video, 15.5% read, while 12.4% spend their spare time in the household duties. The main psychological complaint was fear in 67.7%, mostly from punishment by hitting [37.3%] and fear from darkness [37.3%]. The other complaints were feeling worry [22.4%], lack of concentration [18.0%], feeling unhappy [16.1%] and night bed-wetting [15.5%]. Boys had loss of appetite, feel worry, unhappy, lack of concentration and have a kind of fear more than girls [significant sex difference]

Thermography of myocardial ischaemia

Thermography of myocardial ischemia was reported both at rest and after effort in 76 males from El-Ekal El-Bahary Village. In general, MI is associated with loss of serial correlation between thermophilc profile components somewhere over the heart. This may be associated with disturbed function of the muscle of the heart and appear to lend a good hand for thermophilc diagnosis of MI. Hitherto, M. infarct can be defined as state of loss of serial correlation between the different parts of the myocardium. That correlation is highly preserved in the normal myocardium

prolile of Good clinical instructures as viewed by nursing students and clinical instructors of high institiute of nursing, Assiut

This study aims to determine the profile of good clinical instructor as viewed by the nursing students and clinical instructors. Two group: of 230 nursing students of the four stages and 19 nursing clinica instructors of High Institute of Nursing. Assiut University in 1990-1991 were included in this study. Three groups of attributes were investigated [1] Professional [1] Personal and [3] Interpersonal relationship characteristics. The results revealed that, the interpersonal relationship was rated higher by students than the staff' while professional characteristics were requested. More by students and staff than the others Students disagreed about enthusiastic neat, g aide, referring to resources practice contributing to nursing upgrade, oriented clinically am professionally, skillful and interested in patient care. Both students and instructors disagreed as regards considerate of student's time, promoting inquiry and students want them more. Instructors wan self-confident" more Students also not aareed as regards the intellectual recognizing limitations self-confident decissive and the emotional characteristics empathetic. students agreed about the interpersonal relationship characteristics and disagreed with the instructors and they request sharing ideas with students sensitive, good listener and non-judginental and not with accepting different opinions and approachable more. However, the most important characteristics ranked by the students were: I- Knowledgeable in speciality 2- Fair evaluator 3-relating knowledge to skills 4-role model 5- taking responsibility for action and by the clinical instructors were; 1- role model 2- self confident 3-fair evaluator 4- enthusiastic 5- Taking responsibility for action

Study of job satisfaction among nurses in Assiut University Hospitals in 1991

Job satisfaction is an important issue nowadays for both, the performance, productivity at work and personal satisfaction from the job. Job satisfaction is a function of correspondence between the individual needs and job reinforces. In this study 220 nurses of Assiut University Hospitals filled in a questionnaire consisted of 2 groups of questions each. The first group was to know the satisfaction variable scores and the second group was to measure the importance of the variables for personal satisfaction. The results show a mean age of nurses 26.4 +/- 7.7 years. The range of experience is from one to 23 years and most of the nurses were married 138 [62.7%]. Positive relationship was found with most factors except the pay factor. Positive correlation was found with relation to coworkers, relation to supervisors, and doctor nurse relationship followed by job content and job security level. Job security factor was ranking number one in terms of both satisfaction and importance. Nurses generally didn't care of items like pay, work condition and environment and job content

study of knowledge, practice and acceptability of family planning methods in El-Wilidia, Assiut governorate

The present work was carried out in MCH center in El-Wilidia, Assiut and included 178 mothers in the child bearing period and their husbands. Our results revealed that 12 [6.7%] of husbands and 40 [22.5%] of wives were illiterate. 15.6 [87.6%] of husbands and 170 [95.5%] of wives agreed in family planning. 103 [57.8%] of wives were house wives and 74 [41.6%] were employees. Parent's opinion in family planning was proportionally decreased with increasing number of girls and increased with increasing number of boys. IUDs was the most used method, 121 [68.0%], followed by oral contraceptive pills, 50 [28.1%]. Easily administration was the main cause for selection as it represented 84.3% in IUD and 54.0% in pills. Medical complications showed percentages of 14.0% in IUD and 22% in pills. 66 [37.7%] of the studied sample stopped use of birth control methods, 40 [60.6%] of them stopped use because they get pregnant, 17 [25.6%] want to get pregnant while 1 [1.5%] stopped use because of medical complications

Epidemiology of senile cataract in rural Assiut

Al-Maasara village [6 km from Assiut city] was surveyed in 1988 for senile cataract and the related factors. A sample of persons aged 30 years and more [301] were examined. Lens examination by red reflex in reduced light by ophthalmoscope was done. Fifty two and half% have senile cataract. Senile cataract increased with increasing age. It is common in females at age group 30-39 and 60-69 years, widowed or divorced, illiterates, short and low weight persons and in people having hypertension and taking antihypertensives. There is no significant relationship to past illness

Study of the effects of health education and sanitary recreational water on the incidence of urinary schistosomiasis among school children in rural Assiut

This study aims of studying the effect of health education together with the presence of sanitary recreational water on the incidence of urinary Schistosomiasis among school children in rural Assiut. It was carried out in three villages in Manfalout district, Assiut Governorate. The study included 2251 pupils. They represented nearly all male pupils enrolled in the scholastic year 1989-1990 in all grades of the primary schools and the first and second grades of the preparatory schools. Three study groups were formed, one from each village: The first study group included Bani Magd pupils. They had a swimming pool and were exposed to health education program. The second study group included Naza Karrar pupils. They were exposed to antischistosomiasis health education program only. The control group included Bani Rafeh pupils. They had neither a place for sanitary recreational water contact nor health education program. The three study villages groups were similar in the factors that may influence the spread of Schistosomiasis. Also, they were equal in the prevalence of urinary Schistosomiasis. A questionnaire was designed and applied for all studied pupils together with urine parasitological examination at the pre-intervention phase. Another questionnaire was applied together with another urine examination at the post-intervention phase of the study, 8 months later. Incidence of urinary Schistosomiasis over the eight months' study period was 13.6% in Bani Magd; 37.4% in Naza Karrar while it was 36.6% in Bani Rafeh, with highly significant difference between Bani Magd pupils and Bani Rafeh pupils and no significant difference between Naza Karrar pupils and Bani Rafeh pupils. The swimming pool was utilized nearly by all swimmer pupils [98.6%] and by only 21.5% of non swimmers. It significantly decreases the incidence of urinary Schistosomiasis between swimmers [17% for utilizers and 100% for the three swimmer non-utilizers], but it increased incidence between - non-swimmers [16.7% for utilizers and 9.5% for non-utilizers], however, this increase was not statistically significant. In conclusion, this study indicated that health education together with the presence of sanitary recreational water [swimming pool] significantly reduced the incidence of urinary Schistosomiasis among school children in rural Assiut