Introduction: Globally, the numbers of elderly population are increasing which is one of the challenges for nurses in health care setting. Nurses' attitude towards elderly people is associated to quality of care they provide.  Objective To identify attitude of nurses towards care of elderly people in teaching hospitals of Kathmandu valley.  Methodology A cross sectional research design was used to identify attitude of nurses towards care of elderly people. Proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used to select 450 nurses. Ethical approval was taken from Institutional Review Board of Nepal Health Research Council. Data collection was done from 17 April 2017 to 16 April 2018 by using self-administrative questionnaire on socio-demographic characteristics and Multi-factorial Attitude Questionnaires (MAQ) to measure attitude. Data analysis was done using descriptive and inferential statistics.  Results The study revealed that 55.3% of respondents had negative attitude and 44.7% had positive attitude towards care of elderly people. There was significant association between age, marital status, studied geriatric nursing and work experiences in nursing with attitudes of nurses. However, there is no association found of ethnicity, religion, type of family, living with elderly, education and currently working with elderly with attitudes of nurses.  Conclusion From these findings, it is concluded that about more than half of the nurses had negative attitude towards care of elderly. Gerontological nursing course plays significant role in the attitude of nurses. Therefore, it should be given continuity in all level of nursing education for providing quality care of elderly people.

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Introduction: Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) had spread all over the world resulting in a large number of deaths. As COVID-19 is highly contagious and directly threatens life, it has caused high level of distress around the globe and impacts quality of sleep as well. This study aimed to analyse psychological distress and quality of sleep during COVID-19pandemic among community people. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical study was conducted to find out psychological distress and sleep quality among 360 community people residing in Lalitpur, Nepal during COVID-19 pandemic from May to June 2021. Proportionate stratified and snowball sampling techniques were used to select the sample from each stratum. Data were collected through telephone interview using K6 Psychological Distress Scale and sleep quality scale. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: Moderate to high psychological distress was found among 40% and 79.7% had good to excellent sleep. Gender and marital status had significant association with distress and history of COVID-19 had significant association with sleep quality at 95% of significance level (p-value=.00, .00, .00) respectively. Psychological distress and sleep quality had significant negative relationship (r=-.46, p=.00). Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, it can be concluded that urban community people had low distress and most of the respondents had good sleep quality. Gender, marital status and history of COVID-19 were associated with distress level and sleep quality. Negative relationship between distress level and sleep quality suggests that there is a need to take consideration of distress level of community people so that their sleep quality can be promoted. Key words: Community, COVID-19 pandemic, Nepal, Psychological distress, Sleep quality.

Background: The Corona Virus Disease-19 pandemic has brought serious psychological impact among all group of people around the globe. Nepal is not exception on it. The long effect of it (around 2 years) has affected every aspect of individual’s life including the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of the people). This study aimed to find out the HRQOL among patients’ family members who were visiting hospital during COVID-19 pandemic in Nepal. Methods: Cross-sectional analytical study was conducted among 200 family members (20 to 60 years) of patients visiting Patan Hospital, Nepal, during COVID-19 pandemic in July to August, 2021. A structured self-administered questionnaire- World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief (WHOQOL-BREF) Version was used to measure the quality of life. Descriptive and inferential (ANOVA, Independent t-test) statistics was used for data analysis. P value was set at 0.05. Results: Out of 200 family members, 66.0% were male and mean age was 32.68±SD-9.360 years. About 20.0% had history of COVID-19 infection. Respondents’ overall QOL and satisfaction was neutral. The higher mean score (13.92±2.54) was found on social relation, followed by psychological health (13.68±1.74), physical health (13.14±1.54), and environmental health (12.53±1.74). There was significant association between education status and overall QOL and overall satisfaction (F=3.38, p=0.01; F=3.68, p=0.00, respectively). Furthermore, educational status and employment status were significantly associated with physical health domain (F=2.78, p=0.02; F=2.71, p=0.02, respectively). Conclusion: Overall QOL and satisfaction of respondents’ was neutral. The higher mean score was found on social relation, followed by psychological health, physical health and environmental health. Key words: COVID-19, Family members, Health related quality of life.

Introduction: Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is highly contagious, has spread across the world rapidly and has taken many lives. All these have created a lot of concern for people leading to heightened levels of anxiety as a common response to this dreadful situation. It not only has affected physically but psychologically as well including sleep quality. This study aimed to assess employees and their spouses’ level of anxiety and sleep quality. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted to find out level of anxiety and quality of sleep among employees and their spouses in Nepal during COVID-19 pandemic from June 14, 2020, to July 4, 2020. Web based Google forms and printed questionnaire were used to collect data as required. Total enumerative sampling technique was used where 128 responses were received. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. P value was significant at 0.05. Ethical approval was obtained from Institutional Review Committee of Patan Academy of Health Sciences. Results: The overall prevalence of COVID-19 dysfunctional anxiety was 1.6% and poor quality sleep was 39.1%. There was no significant association of age, gender and status of respondents with quality of sleep at 95% of significance level (p-value=.089, .887, .964 respectively). Conclusion: From findings of the study, it is concluded that though only few respondents had dysfunctional covid-19 anxiety, about two fifth respondents had poor quality of sleep. Therefore, poor quality sleep could be addressed, and counselling could be performed on time. Key words: COVID-19 anxiety, employee, sleep quality, spouse.