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This study aimed to determine the level of digital competencies among faculty members and students at the Northern Border University and to identify the obstacles and challenges imposed by the Corona pandemic. A mixture of survey and qualitative approaches was adopted. The study sample consisted of (86) faculty members and (406) students. The study's questionnaire is to measure digital efficiency at the Northern Border University consisting of seven dimensions of (57) paragraphs, in addition to two open questions about the obstacles and challenges of digital transformation. The results showed that the skills possessed by faculty members and students were of a high degree, and also showed a lack of statistically significant differences in the average digital competencies of university students, whereas there are statistically significant differences due to the impact of the achievement level in favor of the achievement level "excellent" versus "good". The obstacles to digital transformation were concentrated in four main axes: infrastructure, the lack of interest in digital transformation, resistance to change, and the lack of appropriate competencies for digital transformation. The challenges facing digital transformation were summarized in four main axes: providing infrastructure, developing the quality of communication between the educational process participants, controlling the quality of educational outputs, and raising the digital efficiency of the educational process.
ABSTRACT
Background: Diabetes is a common metabolic disease with debilitating consequences and a slow and steady course. This sickness both costs a lot of money and impairs the patient's quality of life. Hence, this study aimed to assess the effect Assess the effect of psycho-education program on quality of life among diabetic patients during Covid-19. Research design: a quasi-experimental (one-group pretest/posttest) research design was utilized to accomplish the study. The study was carried out in outpatient clinic at King Khalid Hospital, Najran city, Saudi Arabia. The study included a convenience sample of 100 diabetic patients. Tools: Tools of data collection involved an Arabic-language self-administered questionnaire include;socio demographic characteristics, health history, knowledge, practice and quality life Results: detected that 48%, 44% and 50% of studied patients had low quality life at physical, mental and social domains respectively, while 58%, 64% and 60% of them had high quality life at physical, mental and social domains respectively. Meanwhile, 65%, 70% and 69% of them had high quality life at physical, mental and social domains respectively. Finally, 49% of studied patients had low quality life pre intervention, 59% had high at post intervention and 68% had high quality life at follow up Conclusion: Based on our current study, it was concluded that the psychoeducational program had positive effect on diabetic patients' knowledge, practice and improve quality of life. Also, there was high positive correlation between patients' knowledge and practice and quality life with p value < 0.01**. Recommendation: Regular psycho education programs, particularly targeting patients with chronic disease, are essential for enhancing knowledge and maintaining self practices. Continues updating and refreshing the diabetic patients' knowledge and practice through workshops. Replication of the present study on a larger representative probability sample size in various governorates is recommended to achieve generalization of the results.