Overweight and obesity are the fifth leading risk for global deaths. Obesity and the related health risks have been noted to be an epidemic problem worldwide , especially in developing countries. Aim: Application of health belief model among youth at high risk for obesity in Palestine (West Bank). Research design: A quasi-experimental design. Settings: The study was conducted at Faculty of Nursing /An-Najah National University, which located in Nablus and IBN Sina College for Health Sciences, West Bank-Palestine. Subjects: A purposive sample composed of 117 students, from both previous setting. Tools, three tools were used: First: A selfadministered questionnaire, it was composed of four parts, part one: socio-demographic data, part two: Assess university student's knowledge regarding obesity, nutritional habits, and its consequence. Part three: Assess university student's practices related to health belief regarding healthy food and regular exercises. Part 4: Assess the effects of obesity on university student's life style. Second tool: The HBM sub constructs which used in this study. Third tool: Anthropometric measurement to detect body mass index. Results: Revealed that less than half of youth were obesity class1, and more than one third were obesity class II. There was a highly significant difference between student's knowledge and their practices regarding obesity,healthy food, and exercises pre &post nursing intervention program Conclusion: This study concluded that, the application of health belief model among youth had a significant statistical relationship with improved knowledge and practices related to health belief of student at high risk for obesity. Recommendations: Conducting routine screening for obesity, dieting and other weight reduction practices as an integral part of the ongoing health care provided by all health services .HBM also suggests that the benefits and barriers of changing health behavior must be taken into consideration.

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Background: Urogenital tract infections (UGTIs) are a universal public health problem, mainly neglected by many females in adolescence stage. The study aimed to: Assess the prevention of urogenital tract infections among nursing and non nursing female school students. Research design: A descriptive design was utilized to achieve the aim of this study. Setting: The study was conducted at the Technical Nursing Institute in Bab El-sharia University Hospital Affiliated to ElAzhar University, Egypt and secondary school for girls in Bab El-sharia affiliated to Bab Al-Sharia Educational Administration. Sample: A convenience sample of 304 (196 Female nursing school students and 108 of non nursing school students) enrolled at first and second grade at the above mentioned setting was involved in this study. Tools: Self-administered questionnaire: It was included five parts as following: Part (1): female nursing and non nursing school student's demographic data. Part (2): female's nursing and non nursing school student's health history related to exposure to urogenital tract infections. Part (3): females nursing and non nursing school students Knowledge related to urogenital tract infections. Part (4): female nursing and non nursing school students reported Health practices regarding prevention of UGTIs. Part (5): assessing the health needs and problems of female students during infection with the genitourinary system Results: Findings of the present study showed that 50% of the studied nursing students, had satisfactory level of total knowledge about urogenital infection, compared with 34.3% of the studied non nursing students had satisfactory level of total knowledge about urogenital infection. 58.2% of the studied nursing students had unhealthy practices to prevent urogenital tract infection compared with 61.1% of the studied non nursing students had unhealthy practices to prevent urogenital tract infection. Conclusion there was a statistically non-significant correlation between total practices and age. Also, there was a statistically non-significant correlation between total practices and total knowledge of the studied students (nursing and non-nursing). Recommendation: Students counsel about personal hygiene and importance of menstrual hygiene is recommended. Further study: Designing and implementing workshops about proper hygienic practices, healthy eating habits would be of great importance to increase students' awareness and prevention of UGTI.

The loss of a limb is a devastating event, persons with a new prosthesis limbs face a complex set of tasks to return to an adaptive mobility status and to faced social station, so the type and quality of the prosthesis affect the individual's physical and mental ability. Aim: is to assess the quality of life among adults with prosthesis limbs. Research design: it is adescriptive study. Sample: A purposive sample of 193 adults with prosthesis limbs. Setting: This study was conducted at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Rheumatology Center affiliated to Armed force Tool: one tool was used for data collection for assessing demographic characteristics of adults with prosthesis limbs, their medical history,knowledge and practices toward prosthesis, also the quality of life for adults with prosthesis limb. Results: the study findings showed that about half of studied sample had poor physical quality of life; nearly three quarter of them had also poor psychological and economical quality of life. Also more than half of them had poor spiritual quality of life. Totally more than half of the studied sample had poor quality of life. Conclusion There was highly statistically significant relation between knowledge of adults with prosthetic related to prosthetic limb and their age, educational level and. and Job. Also there was highly statistically significant relation between educational level, marital status and job of adult with prosthetic limb and their practice. This study reflected that there was a highly significant relation between knowledge of adults with prosthetic related to prosthetic limb and their practice. Finally, this study clarifies that more than half of adults with prosthetic had poor quality of life. Recommendations:Regular awareness program should be conducted regarding prosthetic limb its newer types, parts, complication and prevention of problem and appropriate intervention to decrease stress levels and anxiety to enhance quality of life among adults prosthetic limb.

Background Children presenting with joint pains are a very common occurrence in any general pediatric outpatient department. About 15% of general pediatric consultations are for myriad pains of the musculoskeletal system. Aim of the work To screen Egyptian children presenting to a tertiary center for different causes of arthralgia. Subjects and Methods This is a descriptive study that was conducted on 200 pediatric patients (86 males and 114 females) presenting with arthralgia at the Children’s hospital Ain shams University from August 2017 till April 2018. Patients with chronic illness, skeletal deformity, past history of acute rheumatic fever, and any patient with acute febrile illness were excluded. All patients were subjected to full medical history, examination, laboratory investigation as complete blood picture, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, c reactive protein, electrocardiography and echocardiography. Results Around 18% of patients with arthralgia were proved to have post streptococcal arthralgia, 35% had collagen diseases, 10% with malignant conditions. no identifiable cause could be found in 36% of the patients and two patients diagnosed as acute rheumatic fever. Conclusion Arthralgia is a common symptom in the pediatric age group. Although it is a benign condition, sometimes it accurs due to serious illness like malignancy or collagen diseases.