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Background: Kangaroo care is one of the nursing practices with medical provision that can meet the important physical and emotional needs of the preterm such as warmth, stimulation, parental attachment, breast-feeding and safety. This study aimed to: assess the mothers' knowledge and practices about kangaroo mother care on weight gain of premature neonates in neonatal intensive care units. Research design: A quasi-experimental design was utilized in the current study. Setting: This study was conducted at neonatal intensive care unit in Beni Suef University Hospital. Subjects: A purposive sample of 50 mothers accompanying their premature infants. Tools of data collection: Three tools were used: tool (1) interviewing questionnaire: (pre, post and follow-up), tool (2) checklist of reported practices: (pre, post and follow-up), tool (3) knowledge of the mother about kangaroo care technique: (pre, post and follow-up). Results: More than three quarters of the studied mothers had unsatisfied knowledge about Kangaroo Mother Care in the pre educational program implementation while nearly all of them had satisfactory level of knowledge in the post educational program implementation....

Background: Neonatal jaundice occurs in about 60% of neonates. If not managed properly, it can progress to severe neonatal jaundice leading to death or permanent disability. Aim of this study: To assess nursing care provided to neonates undergoing phototherapy. Design: A descriptive design was utilized in this study. Setting: The study was carried out in the neonatal intensive care units affiliated to Helwan General Hospital and Ain Shams University Obstetric Hospital. Subject:The study included 80 nurses working at the previously mentioned setting and one hundred and twenty neonates.Tools:Two tools were utilized for data collection in a period of 4 months, (1) A questionnaire sheet to assess nurses' knowledge and (2) An observation checklist to assess nurses' practice regarding neonates suffering from jaundice and undergoing phototherapy.Results: The results revealed that,the majority of the studied nurses had poor knowledge, more than three-quarters of the studied nurses had a poor level of actual practice regarding nursing care for neonates undergoing phototherapy and there was a highly statistical significant relation between nurses' knowledge & practice. Conclusion: The study concluded that, nurses had a poor level of knowledge and practice regarding the nursing care for neonates undergoing phototherapy. Recommendations: Develop educational training programs for meeting actual educational need assessment of nurses dealing with neonates undergoing phototherapyto update nurses' knowledge and practices toward providing comprehensive, concise and complete nursing care for neonates undergoing phototherapy.

Background Epilepsy is the commonest serious neurological condition of childhood. It is a group of chronic disorders in which the indispensable feature is recurrence of seizure. Parents play the most significant role in caring for their children and helping them adapt to their conditions ,especially mothers. The aim of the present study was to assess parents` knowledge, practice and attitude toward care for their epileptic children at Helwan General Hospital, and Helwan fever Hospital. A descriptive design was conducted on a sample of 100 parents of children with epilepsy at the pediatric neurology outpatient clinic and in-patient units at Helwan General Hospital, Helwan Fever Hospital in Elkahera Governorate, Egypt .Three tools were used in this study, the first was a questionnaire interview sheet to collect data about studied parents and their children, and to assess parents` knowledge about epilepsy .The Second was seizure severity scale. The Third tool was a questionnaire sheet about parents`s knowledge regarding practices in caring for their epileptic children. Results indicated that the majority of the studied parents` (mothers) had a poor knowledge score about epilepsy while ,75/ had moderate knowledge score (Satisfactory level). Most of the studied parents` total care practices score was incompetent. More over there was a positive correlation between parents` total knowledge score and their total knowledge about care practices score with person`s correlation coefficient (r= 0.43, p= 0.001). Based n the result of the present study.it could be recommended that the educational programs for parents of epileptic children about epilepsy and its care should be conducted and establishing a standard of care for children with epilepsy in hospital and clinics is essential.