Background: Healthcare workers like nurses’ are the primary group who come in contact with patients, an important source of exposure to infected cases in healthcare settings. Co­rona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought all the health care professionals including nurses to work as a frontline member which may bring threat to mental wellbeing. The nurse’s psychological impact including stress and anxiety remains unknown. Hence, this study aimed to assess the stress and anxiety regarding COVID-19 among nurses working at Chitwan medical college and teaching hospital. Methods: A Descriptive cross-sectional survey was carried out among nurses working in Chitwan Medical College and teaching hospital. A total of 181 Nurses were selected through non probability consecutive sampling from various wards of Chitwan Medical College and Teaching Hospital. Data was collected using structured questionnaire. Data analysis was performed in SPSS version 20 for window using descriptive statistics. Results: The findings of the study revealed that out of 181 nurses 54.7% nurses reported moder­ate and 37.6% reported high level of stress and 10.5% of nurses reported mild to moderate level of anxiety. Conclusions: Considerable proportion of nurses working in different wards of hospital appear to experience some degrees of stress and anxiety during COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, it is essential that health organization takes measures to improve nurses’ mental health by intervening stress management programme to ensure positive attitude and maintain mental well-being.

Background: Dysmenorrhea is a common gynaecologic complaint among adolescent female. Despite of being a natural phenomenon it has severe impact on day to day activities such as school absenteeism, decreased social and physical activities. Hence, this study aimed to assess the prevalence and predictors of dysmenorrhoea and it’s effects among adolescent girls in Chitwan. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 393 female adolescent students who were studying in secondary and higher secondary level in public schools of Bharatpur, Chitwan. Students were selected through proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Data were collected by using structured self-administered questionnaire from January 17, 2021 to February 16, 2021. Data were analysed in SPSS software version 20 for window using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Prevalence of dysmenorrhoea was found to be 87.5% and 47.4% of adolescents experienced moderate level of menstrual pain. Three fourth (75%) of adolescents reported decreased in physical activity, difficulty in sleep (67.7%), unnecessary irritation (65.4%) and class absenteeism (38.1%) during menstruation. Most (89.8%) of the adolescents communicate their problem with others and 40.7% apply heat therapy. Prior health education [AOR:4.087, 95% CI: 1.980 – 8.403) and family history of dysmenorrhoea [AOR:2.786, 95% CI: 1.408– 5.495) were found to be statistically significant with dysmenorrhoea. Conclusions: Dysmenorrhoea is the most common problem among the adolescents that affects various domains of life. Hence, the concerned authorities need to consider various factors such as health seeking behavior, educational intervention and counselling in order to mitigate the silent problems related to menstruation.

Background: Sexual harassment in public transportation has been recognized as a worldwide serious problem, particularly among women. However, the exact figure of the sexual harassment in transit places is still unknown. Therefore, this study aims to identify the prevalence of sexual harassment in public transportation among the female students of a public college at Bharatpur. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study consisted of 196 female students who studied in the 12th standard of various academic streams of Saptagandaki Multiple Campus of Bharatpur. Stratified proportionate random sampling technique was used for selection of the desired sample. Structured questionnaire was used and data was collected from 2076/ 03/15 B.S to 2076/03/27 B.S through web - based survey. Data analysis was performed in SPSS version 20 for window using descriptive statistics. Results: Majority, i.e. 82.1% of the respondents experienced sexual harassment in public transportation of which 85.1% experienced verbal harassment followed by physical harassment (80.1%) and non- verbal harassment (70.8%). Male passengers were the main perpetrators involved in physical (82.8%), verbal (75.2%) and non- verbal harassment (81.6%). Furthermore, the study revealed that the highest (96.3%) of the participants did not file the complaint because of fear. Conclusions: Sexual harassment in public transportation was found to be significantly higher in female students. Therefore, government and concerned authorities need to adopt zero tolerance rules, regulation ad policies towards any form of sexual harassment in public spaces.