Background: Coronavirus pandemic disease 2019 is considered an emerging disease that is highly infectious, caused by coronavirus in December 2019 in Wuhan city, China. Corona virus affected educational process all over the world and led to the schools closures, universities, and colleges, within the middle of March 2020. Aim: Evaluate the effect of educational intervention on secondary school students' knowledge, practical knowledge and attitudes regarding the COVID-19. Methods: quasi-experimental design was adopted. Purposive sample of 260 students were selected at secondary school students in Sohag City from 20 April to 2 May 2020. The tools utilized in this study consisted of a self-administered questionnaire that contained four parts to assess secondary school students' demographics, knowledge regarding COVID-19, the attitudes toward COVID-19 and reported practice regarding COVID-19 and health education Arabic booklet. The questionnaire was designed using Google forms regarding the COVID-19, and the link of the survey was presented to the respondents via Facebook and WhatsApp groups. Results: A significant difference was found between secondary students' knowledge attitudes, and practices pre and post intervention. Most of students had a poor pretest knowledge and attitude level, which improved after intervention. More than half of them had poor pretest practice levels which improved after educational intervention implementation. Conclusion: It concluded that secondary students' knowledge, attitude, and reported practice improved after exposure to the educational intervention. Educational intervention providing was significantly effective in increasing knowledge level, attitude, and practice among secondary school students regarding COVID-19. Recommendations: Encourage cooperation between educational institutions, medical care providers, and health personnel to educate secondary school students regarding COVID-19.

Background: Coronavirus pandemic disease 2019 is considered an emerging respiratory disease that is highly infectious and is caused by coronavirus and was detected in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Coronavirus has affected educational systems worldwide and led to the total closures of schools, universities, and colleges, in the middle of March 2020. The study aimed to evaluate the impact of educational intervention on secondary school students’ knowledge, practical knowledge and attitudes regarding to COVID-19. Methods: A pre/post quasi-experimental design was adopted. A total of 260 students were selected at secondary school students in Sohag City in the study from 20 April to 2 May 2020. The tools utilized in this study consists of: A self-administered questionnaire which contains four parts to assess secondary school students' demographic, knowledge regarding COVID -19, the attitude toward COVID -19 and practice regarding COVID -19 and health education Arabic booklet was prepared by the researchers. The COVID-19 related questionnaire was designed using Google forms regarding the COVID-19, the link of the survey was sent to the respondents via Facebook and Whatsapp groups. Results: A statistically significant difference between secondary students' knowledge attitudes, and practices before and after educational intervention. 202 (77.7%) had a poor pretest attitude level followed by fair (20.0%) and good 6 (2.3%). In the posttest, all 260 students had a good attitude level which improved after educational intervention implementation. (57.7%) had poor pretest practice levels followed by fair (38.3%) and good 10 (4.0%). Recommendations: It is important to encourage cooperation between educational institutions, medical care providers, and health personnel to educate secondary school students about COVID-19.

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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Well education about nutrition can improve maternal nutritional knowledge and practices significantly, that improve the growth of children. Aim: Assess the effect of mothers' nutritional knowledge, attitude, and practices in childcare on the growth of children. Subjects and method: Design: An analytical cross-sectional study research design was conducted for 100 mothers and their children aged 6-23 months in Medical Pediatric Out-Patient Clinic in Sohag University Hospital. Tools for data collection: Four tools were used to collect the data in the current study, tool (I): A structured questionnaire that consisted of two parts: part ( 1): Sociodemographic characteristics of mothers of children, part (2): Demographic characteristics of children, tool (II): Anthropometric measurement tool, and tool (III): Nutrition-related KAP model questionnaires (Module 2: Feeding young children (6-23 months), and tool (IV): Modified Fahmy and ElSherbini scale.Results: it observed that a significant positive relationship was detected between knowledge, attitude, and practices and WFA (r = 0.26, P = 0.0001) and between WFH (r = 0.11, P = 0.02). In the studied young children, it was observed that 54% of young children between 6-8 months consume the recommended and 59% of young children between 9 and 23 months consume more than recommended. Conclusion: Mothers' nutritional knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding childcare have positively affected the growth of children. Recommendations: Educational programs about balanced nutrition for children aged 6-23 should be taught to all mothers.