Looking through mothers' lens on children's technology overuse, behavioral and psychosocial alterations during home confinement: future recommendations

Background: COVID-19 home confinement protracted extended cohabitation and drastic changes in the children's lifestyle behaviors. During this time, mothers faced the foremost challenge to preserve their children's physical and psychological well-being. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate children's technology overuse, behavioral and psychosocial alterations during COVID-19 home confinement. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in Alexandria city, Egypt. A sample of 375 mothers who had school-age children completed the Children's Behavioral and Psychosocial Changes during Home Confinement Questionnaire. Findings: More than three-quarters of mothers reported alterations in children's behaviors related to technology overuse (76.8%). Similarly, 51.5% and 44.8% of mothers reported aggressive behaviors and alterations in children's feelings during COVID-19. Changes in eating patterns (50.7%), sleeping patterns (48.3%), physical activity (54.9%), and personal hygiene (54.4%) were also perceived as major challenges. Conclusion: Home confinement related to the COVID-19 pandemic was identified as a great source of alteration in children's behaviors and psychosocial status. Children overused technology as a solely recreational outlet during confinement time. Consequently, mothers faced major challenges regarding the alteration in their children's lifestyle, technology overuse, disobedience, aggressive behaviors, feelings, and social interaction. So, COVID-19-related behavioral changes could be combated by adopting parents' guidelines. Nurses play a critical role in educating parents to keep an open channel of communication with their children. They should also remain vigilant for the changes in the regular children's lifestyles and behaviors during home confinement. © 2023 The Author(s)

The spread of COVID-19 outbreak in the first 120 days: a comparison between Nigeria and seven other countries.

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is an emerging public health emergency of international concern. The trajectory of the global spread is worrisome, particularly in heavily populated countries such as Nigeria. The study objective was to assess and compare the pattern of COVID-19 spread in Nigeria and seven other countries during the first 120 days of the outbreak. METHODS: Data was extracted from the World Bank's website. A descriptive analysis was conducted as well as modelling of COVID-19 spread from day one through day 120 in Nigeria and seven other countries. Model fitting was conducted using linear, quadratic, cubic and exponential regression methods (α=0.05). RESULTS: The COVID-19 spread pattern in Nigeria was similar to the patterns in Egypt, Ghana and Cameroun. The daily death distribution in Nigeria was similar to those of six out of the seven countries considered. There was an increasing trend in the daily COVID-19 confirmed cases in Nigeria. During the lockdown, the growth rate in Nigeria was 5.85 (R2=0.728, p< 0.001); however, it was 8.42 (R2=0.625, p< 0.001) after the lockdown was relaxed. The cubic polynomial model (CPM) provided the best fit for predicting COVID-19 cumulative cases across all the countries investigated and there was a clear deviation from the exponential growth model. Using the CPM, the predicted number of cases in Nigeria at 3-month (30 September 2020) was 155,467 (95% CI:151,111-159,824, p< 0.001), all things being equal. CONCLUSIONS: Improvement in COVID-19 control measures and strict compliance with the COVID-19 recommended protocols are essential. A contingency plan is needed to provide care for the active cases in case the predicted target is attained.

Seroprevalence and molecular characterization of bovine viral diarrhea, Rota and corona viruses in neonatal cattle and buffalo calves in some governorates in Egypt

The present study aims to detect the prevalence and molecular characterization of Bovine Viral Diarrhea, Rota and corona viral diseases as major causes of diarrhea that mainly leads to neonatal deaths among calves in some governorates in Egypt (Kafr El Sheikh, El Menofyia, Sharkia, Bahaira and El-Gharbia). The infection rate of the three examined viral diseases showed non-significant difference between sex and age of cow calves, and the infection more common in female young calves. Selective positive samples undergo sequencing and compared with other strains in GenBank. The results showed that the Egyptian BVD strain is closely related to BVD strain from Argentina (DQ088995) and Colombia (MH198305), while Bovine Rota (BRV) showed high similarity with Bovine Rota strain of South Korea and Turkey, but Bovine Corona virus (BCoV) was closed to Bovine Corona viruses (BCoV) strain isolated from France.

National Clinical Guidance for the Management of Cardiovascular Intervention in the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Bangladesh Society of Cardiovascular Interventions (BSCI).

Since the first recorded case of SARS-CoV-2 in Bangladesh on 8th March 2020, COVID-19 has spread widely through different regions of the country, resulting in a necessity to re-evaluate the delivery of cardiovascular services, particularly procedures pertaining to interventional cardiology in resource-limited settings. Given its robust capacity for human-to-human transmission and potential of being a nosocomial source of infection, the disease has specific implications on healthcare systems and health care professionals faced with performing essential cardiac procedures in patients with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19. The limited resources in terms of cardiac catheterization laboratories that can be designated to treat only COVID positive patients are further compounded by the additional challenges of unavailability of widespread rapid testing on-site at tertiary cardiac hospitals in Bangladesh. This document prepared for our nation by the Bangladesh Society of Cardiovascular Interventions (BSCI) is intended to serve as a clinical practice guideline for cardiovascular health care professionals, with a focus on modifying standard practice of care during the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to ensure continuation of adequate and timely treatment of cardiovascular emergencies avoiding hospital-based transmission of SARS-COV-2 among healthcare professionals and the patients. This is an evolving document based on currently available global data and is tailored to healthcare systems in Bangladesh with particular focus on, but not limited to, invasive cardiology facilities (cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology & pacing labs). This guideline is limited to the provision of cardiovascular care, and it is expected that specific targeted pharmaco-therapeutics against SARS-CoV-2 be prescribed as stipulated by the National Guidelines on Clinical Management of Corona virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) published by the Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of Bangladesh.