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Background: Patients with depression have deficits in self-care skills and self-efficacy to help for resolve this discrepancy; it was necessary to have an intervention program to raise the level of self-efficacy and improve self-care skills among patients with depression. Aim: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of intervention program on self-care skills and self-efficacy among patients with depression. Design: This study followed a quasi-experimental research design (pre/post-test) one group. Setting: The study was carried out the inpatient wards at El-abbassia Psychiatric Mental Health Hospital and Benha Psychiatric Mental Health Hospital. Sample: This study was conducted on 40 patients with depression. Tools of data collection: The study tools divided into three tools, (I) Structured Interview questionnaire sheet, (II) Self-care scale, (III) Self-efficacy scale. Results: There was a marked improvement in total self-care skills and self-efficacy post implementation of intervention program with a highly statistically significant difference between pre and post implementation of intervention program among the studied patients. Also, there was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between total patients' self-care skills and total selfefficacy at pre and post-implementation of the program. Conclusion: Intervention program have a marked improvement in total self-care skills and self-efficacy among patients with depression. Recommendations: Continuous in-service training programs for nurses about enhancing self-care skills and self-efficacy skills are need to be implemented to provide basic necessary skills among patients with depression .

Recent research studies have shown that, stigma against people with mental illness is universal. Stigmatized individuals have been found to face a variety of social and emotional consequences including social withdrawal, lowered self-esteem and increased levels of negative affect. This study was a descriptive correlational. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between internalized stigma, self-esteem and loneliness among mentally ill patients. The study was conducted in inpatient ward of Benha Mental Health Hospital. Four instruments were used for collecting the data, socio-demographic and clinical data sheet, Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale, Rosenberg self-esteem scale and UCLA loneliness scale. A convenient sample of 100 psychiatric patients was recruited in this study. The main results revealed that, there were negative correlation between internalizing stigma and selfesteem and show positive correlation with loneliness among studied subjects. The study recommended that there is an urgent need for developing strategies to fight internalized stigma associated with mental illness.

Job satisfaction relates to nurses' health, productivity, job performance and quality of patients care. A better understanding of the determinants of job satisfaction among mental health nurses may allow identification of strategies to improve the working conditions for these nurses with resulting benefits for the quality of nursing care. Aim of the study: Examine the role of both moral distress and sense of coherence on job satisfaction among nurses working with patients having psychiatric disorders.

Background:Mental health issues among Covid19 survivors during the post-illness period are an emerging and essential health issue. The ability to recognize mental health problems in patients who survived of COVID-19 is highly critical in detecting early symptoms of mental disorders. Covid19 can be highly traumatic experiences for patients. Aim: This study aimed to assess of psychological problems and traumatic stress response among survivors from COVID19 Pandemic. Study Design: A descriptive crosssectional was followed. Setting: COVID 19 outpatient clinic of Chest Hospital, Tanta city, Gharbia Governorate which affiliated to Ministry of Health. Subjects: A convinces sample of 50 COVID-19 survivors. Tools: Two tools were used; (I) Impact of Event Scale-Revised Scoring (IES-R) and (II) Symptom Checklist-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). In addition, a Socio-demographic Structured Questionnaire Sheet was used. Results: About one third of studied COVID-19 survivors had psychological problems and the most common psychological problem of survivors was depression .In addition half of them had traumatic stress response. Conclusion: COVID-19 survivors experience a wide range of severe psychological problems. Recommendation: Throughout convalescent stage of COVID-19, patients urgently require substantial mental health services and psychological crisis assistance.