Background In general, empirical studies indicate that various forms of child abuse negatively affect the victim's development physically, intellectually, and psychosocially. There is a considerable body of research that shows a strong relationship between exposure to abuse and poor academic performance. Objectives: this study aimed to assess exposure to abuse among primary school children in Assiut City and assess its effect on their academic achievement. Design : A descriptive cross sectional research design was used in this study. Subjects and Methods: The studied children were 1054 children from last two years of primary school at Assiut city, with age ranged from 10 to 14 years and both sex. Three tools were utilized to collect data. Tool (one) was self structured interview questionnaire included tow parts; the first part included personal data of child and the second part to assess social class by using Abd-El-Twab scale. Tool (two) Child abuse questionnaire it consists of 63 items. The third tool to assess level of academic achievement. Results: the present results revealed that the vast majority of studied children were identified as victims of emotional, followed by neglecting and physical abuse and also show significant correlation between all of them. It was found that higher percentage of children had failed score were abused compared to non abused children Conclusion: Abuse may negatively affect children scholastic performance. The study recommended that a compelling need for intervention to prevent further abuse and to assist the child victims with their learning difficulties.

Background In general, empirical studies indicate that various forms of child abuse negatively affect the victim's development physically, intellectually, and psychosocially. There is a considerable body of research that shows a strong relationship between exposure to abuse and poor academic performance. Objectives: this study aimed to assess exposure to abuse among primary school children in Assiut City and assess its effect on their academic achievement. Design : A descriptive cross sectional research design was used in this study. Subjects and Methods: The studied children were 1054 children from last two years of primary school at Assiut city, with age ranged from 10 to 14 years and both sex. Three tools were utilized to collect data. Tool (one) was self structured interview questionnaire included tow parts; the first part included personal data of child and the second part to assess social class by using Abd-El-Twab scale. Tool (two) Child abuse questionnaire it consists of 63 items. The third tool to assess level of academic achievement. Results: the present results revealed that the vast majority of studied children were identified as victims of emotional, followed by neglecting and physical abuse and also show significant correlation between all of them. It was found that higher percentage of children had failed score were abused compared to non abused children Conclusion: Abuse may negatively affect children scholastic performance. The study recommended that a compelling need for intervention to prevent further abuse and to assist the child victims with their learning difficulties.

NULL

NULL

NULL

Objective: Health related quality of life (HRQOL) is a multidimensional construct that includes physical and psychosocial functioning, has emerged as an important outcome in pediatric population with chronic health conditions. The study objectives are to measure the quality of life among children with type I diabetes compared to healthy peers and to determine factors affecting the QOL among children with type I diabetes. Methods: Analytic cross sectional study was conducted in Sidi Galal health insurance outpatient clinic for children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and a comparison group of healthy peers was taken from other outpatient clinics. A total of four hundred and twelve children, aged from 8-18 years with type 1 diabetes and four hundred and twelve healthy peers matched in age and sex were interviewed. Three tools were used for this study: Demographic questionnaire, Socio-economic scale, and Peds QL4.0 Generic Core Scale was used to measure HRQOL. Results: The mean age of studied children was 12.9 ± 3.2. More than 60% of children with diabetes had uncontrolled glycemic level and 60% of them were in low socio-economic level. Children with diabetes had significantly lower HRQOL than healthy children in all domains. Age, glycemic control status and birth order of the diabetic children showed no significance difference regarding the QOL. Disease duration affected only the emotional function of the QOL and females showed significantly higher score regarding school functioning. Social, school and the total QOL scores were significantly higher among children with highly educated mothers while father's education affected the emotional, school and total QOL scores. Children in the middle and high social class showed significantly higher scores regarding social, school and total QOL. Presence of diabetic parent positively affected the social functioning while had negative effect on the school function of children with type I diabetes. Conclusions and recommendations: Diabetes is negatively affecting all the QOL functioning of the children. We recommend that Integrated programs between child's home, school and health insurance clinics for educating and supporting children with diabetes to improve their HRQOL.

Objective: Health related quality of life (HRQOL) is a multidimensional construct that includes physical and psychosocial functioning, has emerged as an important outcome in pediatric population with chronic health conditions. The study objectives are to measure the quality of life among children with type I diabetes compared to healthy peers and to determine factors affecting the QOL among children with type I diabetes. Methods: Analytic cross sectional study was conducted in Sidi Galal health insurance outpatient clinic for children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and a comparison group of healthy peers was taken from other outpatient clinics. A total of four hundred and twelve children, aged from 8-18 years with type 1 diabetes and four hundred and twelve healthy peers matched in age and sex were interviewed. Three tools were used for this study: Demographic questionnaire, Socio-economic scale, and Peds QL4.0 Generic Core Scale was used to measure HRQOL. Results: The mean age of studied children was 12.9 ± 3.2. More than 60% of children with diabetes had uncontrolled glycemic level and 60% of them were in low socio-economic level. Children with diabetes had significantly lower HRQOL than healthy children in all domains. Age, glycemic control status and birth order of the diabetic children showed no significance difference regarding the QOL. Disease duration affected only the emotional function of the QOL and females showed significantly higher score regarding school functioning. Social, school and the total QOL scores were significantly higher among children with highly educated mothers while father's education affected the emotional, school and total QOL scores. Children in the middle and high social class showed significantly higher scores regarding social, school and total QOL. Presence of diabetic parent positively affected the social functioning while had negative effect on the school function of children with type I diabetes. Conclusions and recommendations: Diabetes is negatively affecting all the QOL functioning of the children. We recommend that Integrated programs between child's home, school and health insurance clinics for educating and supporting children with diabetes to improve their HRQOL.

Objective: Health related quality of life (HRQOL) is a multidimensional construct that includes physical and psychosocial functioning, has emerged as an important outcome in pediatric population with chronic health conditions. The study objectives are to measure the quality of life among children with type I diabetes compared to healthy peers and to determine factors affecting the QOL among children with type I diabetes. Methods: Analytic cross sectional study was conducted in Sidi Galal health insurance outpatient clinic for children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and a comparison group of healthy peers was taken from other outpatient clinics. A total of four hundred and twelve children, aged from 8-18 years with type 1 diabetes and four hundred and twelve healthy peers matched in age and sex were interviewed. Three tools were used for this study: Demographic questionnaire, Socio-economic scale, and Peds QL4.0 Generic Core Scale was used to measure HRQOL. Results: The mean age of studied children was 12.9 ± 3.2. More than 60% of children with diabetes had uncontrolled glycemic level and 60% of them were in low socio-economic level. Children with diabetes had significantly lower HRQOL than healthy children in all domains. Age, glycemic control status and birth order of the diabetic children showed no significance difference regarding the QOL. Disease duration affected only the emotional function of the QOL and females showed significantly higher score regarding school functioning. Social, school and the total QOL scores were significantly higher among children with highly educated mothers while father's education affected the emotional, school and total QOL scores. Children in the middle and high social class showed significantly higher scores regarding social, school and total QOL. Presence of diabetic parent positively affected the social functioning while had negative effect on the school function of children with type I diabetes. Conclusions and recommendations: Diabetes is negatively affecting all the QOL functioning of the children. We recommend that Integrated programs between child's home, school and health insurance clinics for educating and supporting children with diabetes to improve their HRQOL.

Background: Assessment of clinical competence is an important issue in nursing education and the utilization of objective structured clinical evaluation for that purpose was considered to be very important so perception of nursing teaching staff is important for developing the in exam methodology and organization. The aim of the study: to describe the perceptions of nursing teaching staff regarding Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE ) Design: A descriptive cross - sectional study was used in this study. Setting: study was conducted in Faculty of Nursing, Assiut University. Sample: A total number of 133 convenient samples of nursing teaching staff were included in the study Tools: A self-administered questionnaire of perception about OSCE. The questionnaire comprise of six parts, (Likert scale) regarding the nursing staffs’ perception of OSCE question/ station, exam organization, exam atmosphere, student performance, advantages of OSCE and disadvantages of OSCE. Results: The mean age of studied sample was 36.39 year. About two third of nursing teaching staff agreed that OSCE scores (marks) provided true measure of essential clinical skills needed by student in different disciplines, 75.2% of nursing staff members agreed that exam was fair while 45.9% of studied sample agreed that exam highlighted areas of students’ weakness. Most of sample agreed that OSCE exam was well organized, while only (51.1%) of sample agreed that more time was needed at each station. 47.4% agreed that the environment motivated students to learn, 72.9% agreed that atmosphere was calm, while 23.3% and 27.1% agreed that exam was intimidating (frightening) and exam was very stressful respectively. Moderate correlation and significant between nursing staff members perception of students performance and their age, r = 0.196 and p= 0.024. There are significant differences between disadvantages of OSCE their occupation p= 0.003. Also positive perception of nursing teaching staff regarding OSCE exam was positive (90.1%). Conclusion: positive for all the domains in the questionnaire and total perception of nursing staff members regarding OSCE exam was very positively. The majority of nursing staff members reported that preparation of stations requires more resources and continuous process. Recommendations: Students should also be trained for this type of exam; the best way is to start examining them using this strategy (OSCE) earlier and more is staff needed for this type of exams and more training should be done to staff through journal club.

NULL