The study aims to assess the impact of over weight on quality of life in preparatory school children. A survey study was conducted in El-Nahda and Eaasmat Afefy Preparatory schools in Assiut City during academic year2005\2006. The systematic random sample was used for this study on every fourth class. The total sample was 440 students girls. Every class contains about 55 girls. Three tools were designed specifically to collect data; first tool: Questionnaire sheet to assess demographic data; second tool: to assess weight and height of students and BMI and third tools : Quality Of Life (QOL) questionnaire sheet. The original scale was constructed by Lehman (1986) to assess (QOL) of students. Study showed that mean age of studied students was 13 years mean weight was 51.6 Kg, and mean height was 154 cm. The majority of students were normal weight 72.3% but 16.8% of students were at risk for overweight, only 3.6% of them were overweight and 2.5%obese, 4.8% of sample were under weight. Statistically significant differences were observed between the three categories of overweight in levels of QOL; while the majority of students had low Quality Of Life (83.8%) compared to only 16.2% moderate level (QOL) and no high (QOL) in the three categories. The school is an ideal setting for promotion of new health behaviors school health nurse and specialists in pediatric nursing should work in collaboration with teachers and other educator in the community to achieve positive outcome related to childhood overweight and obese.

Lactation-pregnancy overlap is defined as the continuation of breastfeeding into the first, second, or even third trimester of pregnancy. Pregnancy during breastfeeding is common in Egypt and is often unintended. Overlap is probably common because many women may not realize they are pregnant for several months after conception. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effect of an educational program on the outcome of pregnancy during breastfeeding at Assiut City .Designs a quasi-experimental, prospective-cohort study was used. Setting: the study was conducted in a six Maternal and Child Health Centers in West and East Assiut city. Subjects: All lactation women who attended the selected antenatal care centers during the period of data collection were evaluated for eligibility (n=240). The tools: used for data collection consisted of structured interviewing questionnaire (pre-posttest) and follow-up to collect personal, obstetric data, knowledge about balanced meal and calcium intake during pregnancy, consumption of milk products, times/ week symptoms of low calcium intake and information about the effect of breastfeeding-pregnancy overlaps on pregnancy outcome on labor and newborn and Information about the effect of breastfeeding-pregnancy overlaps on pregnancy outcome. Results showed that the majority of the pregnancies were unintended for both groups. Also, statistical significant decrease among the study group than that of the control groups regarding complications as miscarriage, vaginal bleeding during pregnancy, placental separation, delayed fetal growth, elevation of blood sugar, eclampsia and anemia. Likewise, complication of delivery, and indication for cesarean section, were better among the study group than that of the control group. Also, more than one third of newborns' of the study group of mothers were referred to Premature Care Unit compared to nearly half of the control group. Conclusion: pregnant lactating women who attended the educational program had better pregnancy/ delivery outcomes, also, their newborns. Recommendation: Continuous postnatal counseling and health education classes about nutritional needs focusing on pregnancy to prevent complication for mother and children during breast feeding and weaning practices.

Background: Acne vulgaris is one of the commonest skin disorders which dermatologists have to treat, mainly affect adolescents. It has been found to have a significant impact on their psychological status, The study aimed to identify the prevalence of acne vulgaris among adolescents students and the disability induced by acne vulgaris on them .Subjects and methods: descriptive research cross sectional design was used. It was conducted in four secondary schools at Assiut city .The total study sample was 1026 students which was selected randomly. The study included two tools: first tool was self-administered structure questionnaire, which included two parts, first part was some demographic data of studied students and the second part was about acne vulgaris. The second tool was Acne Disability Index. Results: It was found that 67% of the studied students were female and the mean age ±SD was 16.37 ±1.18. The prevalence of acne in studied students was 60.5%. Also, 63.3% of studied adolescent students had mild disability effect Conclusion: Acne vulgaris is more prevalent among studied students .There was statistically significant difference between Acne Disability Index and students' age and more than three fifths of studied adolescent students had mild disability effect from acne Recommendations: school health nurses should be attended the educational programs about acne because they are most contact and deal with the students.

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Every second for every day, people around the world of all ages need blood transfusions to survive. Millions of blood units were collected from donors every year but demands are increasing day by day that is pushing for sufficient and timely provision of blood donation .Aim : To assess knowledge and attitude about blood donation among nursing students. Methods: descriptive design was used in this study. Convenient sample of 1445 students who participated in the study (433 males and 1012 females).Two tools were used for data collection, first tools-An Arabic structured self-administrative questionnaire sheet which consisted of two parts : part one was personal characteristic, second part are include knowledge about blood donation second tools-Attitude scale developed by Manikandan etal ,2013 toward blood donation. Results: The mean studied students was 19.51 ± 1.90 , around twothirds of them were female and had satisfactory knowledge about blood donation .conclusion :small percent of studied students had good level of knowledge regarding blood donation, the vast majority of them had positive attitude.Recommendation: Increase the awareness of students regarding blood donation through visual aids(picture and poster).The curriculum components of nursing students should be include the basic part about blood donation from all its aspect