Aim To assess the impact of smartphone addiction on depression and self‐esteem among nursing students. Setting Faculty of Nursing. Design Cross‐sectional, survey‐based research design used in this study. Sample: Stratified random sample consists of 320 nursing students. Tools: Four tools used for data collection: personal data sheet, Hamilton rating scale of depression, smartphone addiction scale and Self‐esteem Inventory. Results About 95.8% of nursing students reported smartphone addiction, while 32.5% were pseudonormal of depression. Twenty‐eight percent of them had low self‐esteem. The study also revealed a statistically significant positive correlation between smartphone addiction and levels of depression. There was a statistically significant negative correlation between levels of depression and self‐esteem.

This study examined the effectiveness of assertive training program on social interaction anxiety andself esteem among institutionalized patients with chronic schizophrenia. Quasi-experimental design (pre -post test-groups)

Coronavirus is a communicable disease that originates from a large family of viruses that causes the diseases. It is also complicated by the fact that patients may have irregular symptoms. This means COVID-19 exhibits clinical presentations ranging from asymptomatic to acute respiratory distress syndrome and multiple-organ failure that leading to death. In addition, COVID-19 also is transmitted from person to person through respiratory droplets (World Health Organization, 2020).It is problematic to imagine a scenario, where healthcare worker perceive their work as unimportant to hospitals but are still motivated, satisfied and increase the value of their jobs and hospitals.Therefore, the importance of their activities in the workplace is a major concern for nurses, directors and leadership/head nurses (Poku et al., 2020;Ribeiro et al., 2020). Nurses are employees who are directly affected by the novel coronavirus (Kang et al., 2020). This has affected the psychological abilities of nurses, especially staff working in coronavirus treatment.The work of nurses includes some specific requirements that make this group particularly vulnerable to emissions, distort perceptions and affect participation in the work. The current situation is much more dangerous, for example in a pandemic situation initiated by COVID-19 where work demands are very widespread. The fierce tragedy of the current epidemic, the risk of openness of infectious diseases, the expansion of immediate challenges, the lack of personal defences and other clinical supplies, the lack of testing, the limited choice of treatment, the concerns about pollution and to friends and family. Really focussed, honest, moral and complete assets are included in the designated selection (Pfefferbaum & North, 2020).

BackgroundOne of the most effective measures regarding improving women's health is to promote healthy lifestyle behaviors. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between health-promoting behaviors and sleep quality among a sample of Saudi menopausal women.MethodsA descriptive cross-sectional study was used to collect data from 410 Saudi postmenopausal women visiting primary healthcare care centers located in Sakaka, Jouf, Saudi Arabia, using the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS), Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLPII) and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI).ResultsThe mean age of the study participants was 52.60 ± 4.65 years, the study findings highlighted that among all the HPLP domains, the highest mean score was observed for spiritual growth (24.00 ± 6.60) whereas the lowest score was observed for physical activity (16.18 ± 1.8). Statistically significant negative relations between the total score of HPLP and sleep quality score and menopausal symptoms (p < 0.001, p < 0.005), respectively. Total scores of lifestyle, health responsibility, and stress management were significant differences between participants with good and poor sleep quality. Being overweight/obese, physically inactive, having a chronic illness and poor sleep quality were predictors influencing health-promoting behavior.ConclusionHealth-Promoting Lifestyle Profile II was more obvious in the good sleeper in form of health responsibility and stress management. Being overweight and or obese, having a chronic illness, and having poor sleep quality were the significant factors influencing health-promoting behaviors. Designing and performing educational interventional plans are crucial to create motivation toward a healthy lifestyle and improve the quality of their sleep.

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