Corona-virus pandemic disease 2019 which called “COVID-19” considered an emerging respiratory disease and highly infectious that is caused by corona-virus and was detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Corona-virus has affected educational systems worldwide and leading to the total closures of schools, universities, and colleges, in the middle of March 2020. The study aimed to evaluate the impact of a structured teaching program regarding COVID -19 on knowledge, attitudes, and practices among secondary school students. A pre/post quasi-experimental design was adopted. 260 students were selected from two secondary schools at Sohag City using a multi-stage sample. A self-administered questionnaire and health education Arabic handout was prepared by the researches. There was a statistically significant difference between secondary student's knowledge attitudes, and practices pre and post- structured teaching program implementation. A structured teaching program is effective in improving knowledge, attitudes, and practices among secondary school students regarding COVID -19.

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Background: Improving the mothers' knowledge and practice regarding preserved food is very important and can reduce the effects of preserved food on their children's health. Aim: To evaluate the effect of video-assisted teaching on mothers' knowledge and practices regarding preserved food and their children health. Subjects and Methods: Design: A quasi-experimental research design was utilized in this study. Setting: This study was applied in Pediatric Outpatient Clinics at Sohag University Hospital. Sample: A convenient sample of (300) mothers was included in the study. Tools of data collection: One tool was used: (I) structured interviewing questionnaire, it consisted of three parts: (I) demographic data of the studied mothers, (II) knowledge assessment tool, and (III) reported practice assessment tool. Results: According to the findings of this study, after participating in a video-assisted structured education program mothers' total knowledge and practice about preserved foods improved with statistically significant differences. Conclusion: The current study concluded that video-assisted structured teaching was effective in improving mothers' knowledge and practices level regarding the effects of preserved food on their children's health. Recommendations: It is very important to provide mothers with a teaching program regarding the effects of preserved food on their children's health to promote and improve their knowledge and practices.

Background: The presence of psychological problems, including maternal depression and anxiety may harm fetal and neonatal growth. Depression and anxiety in pregnancy increase the liability for adverse fetal and newborn outcomes, including preterm birth. It was accompanied by abnormal infant development that extended to cognitive problems and psychopathology. This study aimed to analyze relation between antenatal maternal depression and anxiety during pregnancy and neonatal outcomes by assessing depression levels among pregnant women, identifying anxiety levels among pregnant women, and investigating the relation between antenatal maternal depression and anxiety during pregnancy and neonatal outcomes. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study included 216 pregnant women and their newborns from the Obstetrics and Gynecology ward at Sohag University Hospital and the Maternal and Child Health Center (Dar El-Salam Abed-Allah Health Center) at Sohag City. Tools: 1-A structured selfadministered questionnaire, anthropometric measurement tool, the Edinburgh Postnatal Depressive Scale (EPDS), the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), and Apgar score sheet, were utilized for collecting the data. Results: Considering depression approximately one quarter of pregnant women had moderate depression symptoms during pregnancy, while three fifth had no depression symptoms and 16.0 of them had severe depression symptoms during pregnancy. As regard less than one fifth of pregnant women had mild level of anxiety, while three quarter of them had a moderate level of anxiety and less than one fifth of them had severe anxiety level during pregnancy. Statistically significant relationships were found between severe depression symptoms scores, anxiety and birth weight, weight-for-GA and length, prematurity less than one fifth, need for resuscitation one quarter, and need for admission to neonatal intensive care near one fifth. Conclusion: Pregnant women who are suffering from severe depression and anxiety symptoms during pregnancy, their babies were more liable to increase the need for neonatal resuscitation, increase the chance of preterm birth, have a low birth weight, and are small for gestational age. Recommendation: Providing pregnant women health educational programs about the effects of depression and anxiety on them and on their neonates, non pharmacological interventions are important treatments for depression or anxiety that focus on promoting a healthy lifestyle with adequate nutrition, exercise and sleep.

Background: During COVID-19, academic nursing students face many challenges as a result of online learning. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the greatest disruption of learning in history and had a global impact on learners and teachers. The study aimed to recognize perception, satisfaction, and obstacle of online learning faced by academic nursing students during COVID-19 pandemic. Subjects and Methods: Design: A descriptive research design was used in this study. Setting: The study was applied in the Faculty of Nursing, Sohag University. Sample: A convenient sample of 230 including all the third academic nursing students' years in the previously mentioned setting. Four tools of data collection: (I) an online questionnaire was used. It consisted of two parts; (1) demographic characteristics of academic nursing students, (2) educational platforms were used, (II) online learning obstacles faced by academic students, (III) learner satisfaction with online learning, (IV) students' perception toward online learning assessment sheet. Results: The revealed that the most used platform among academic nursing students was the Microsoft platform for online learning. The most obstacles faced by the students during online learning concern the Learners' characteristics dimension, as well as less than two-thirds of the studied academic nursing students, face a high level of obstacles. Also, about two-thirds of students were unsatisfied with their online learning experience. There is a positive statistically significant correlation between total perception and obstacles for online learning. Conclusion: It was found that academic nursing students were unsatisfied with continuing online learning during COVID-19 and faced many obstacles that interfere with their education. Recommendations: Educating the younger generation of academic nursing students about how to use online learning platforms to transform them into the future through various media and faculties to help academic them become more knowledgeable and skilled