A survey study was conducted on 520 fourth-year female students drawn randomly from the Faculty of Nursing and Faculty of Education, Assiut University during the academic year 2002 to assess their information about and attitudes toward female circumcision (FC).Tools: An interview Arabic questiOlmaire sheet for data collection was used to the520 girls under study. Results: The results indicate a statistically significant difference in the prevalence of FC among both groups. Among both groups the (daya) ranked highest as the main operator (44 %, 39.8% for nursing and educational students, respectively). 15.5% of nursing students and 17.6 % of educational students developed complications. 69.7% of nursing students and 57.7% of educational students were circumcised between the ages 5 - 10 years. For 42.2% of nursing students and 34.5% of educational students it was the mother who made the decision. Moreover, half of two sample the practice was done mostly at home (68.8% and 57.4% of nursing and educational students, respectively) followed by (16.5%, 27.7%) at hospital. For 10.09% of nursing students and 10.4% of educational students the practice was done at private clinics. It was found that (45.8%, 72%) of the students agreed to the practice of Fe. 64.2% of nursing students and 58.7% of educational students reported that they were going to do the circumcise your daughter in the future. The most cited sources of information for nursing students are medical and nursing literature (30.9%), radio and TV (25%), books and magazines (19.2%). The most cited sources of information for educational students were TV (27%) and family (20.3%) with highly significant difference 0.0001. Our study suggested that nursing students and educational students after graduation are the most contact by community because the rationale for FC is multifaceted and complex. Nursing students must be more knowledgably about FC to change mothers knowledge and attitudes at hospital, MCH and community specially during home visit, more over educational students more contact with parents of pupils at schools and aware him about FC and complication.

Education is critical to effective, safe life of preschool age and supervisors with health promotion. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of the instructional scheme upon caregiver and/or Supervisors of nursery school knowledge and skills related to health promotion. Fifty caregiver and/or Supervisors in nursery school who receive instruction about health promotion were included in the study. total of 50 caregivers were randomly selected from social region in Assuit .two tools were designed to collect knowledge, and observational check list sheet to measure caregivers practice. The first tool was A structional interview questionnaire to assess the caregiver and/or Supervisors of nursery school knowledge and second tool is observational checklist to performance of health promotion to determine the baseline data and educational needs .. lt was found that there was a great improvement of the studied sample in relation to knowledge and practice related to health promotion .Continuous education and motivation are needed for the maintenance of safe life to the preschool children in nursery school with supervisors about health promotion in the majority of nursery school of Assuit governorate e. The majority of caregiver and/or Supervisors (92%) had poor level of knowledge, Also (86%) had poor level of practice toward health promotion use play, hygiene, rest, exercise feeding. Immunization, prevent of communicable diseases and accident prevention. There are Statistical significant relationship has been found between caregivers knowledge and practice before and after application of training program. Written policy were recommended for each nursery school is suspected. This besides Adequate training program should be designed to increase the caregivers'knowledge

Education is critical to effective, safe life of preschool age and supervisors with health promotion. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of the instructional scheme upon caregiver and/or Supervisors of nursery school knowledge and skills related to health promotion. Fifty caregiver and/or Supervisors in nursery school who receive instruction about health promotion were included in the study. total of 50 caregivers were randomly selected from social region in Assuit .two tools were designed to collect knowledge, and observational check list sheet to measure caregivers practice. The first tool was A structional interview questionnaire to assess the caregiver and/or Supervisors of nursery school knowledge and second tool is observational checklist to performance of health promotion to determine the baseline data and educational needs .. lt was found that there was a great improvement of the studied sample in relation to knowledge and practice related to health promotion .Continuous education and motivation are needed for the maintenance of safe life to the preschool children in nursery school with supervisors about health promotion in the majority of nursery school of Assuit governorate e. The majority of caregiver and/or Supervisors (92%) had poor level of knowledge, Also (86%) had poor level of practice toward health promotion use play, hygiene, rest, exercise feeding. Immunization, prevent of communicable diseases and accident prevention. There are Statistical significant relationship has been found between caregivers knowledge and practice before and after application of training program. Written policy were recommended for each nursery school is suspected. This besides Adequate training program should be designed to increase the caregivers'knowledge

Education is critical to effective, safe life of preschool age and supervisors with health promotion. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of the instructional scheme upon caregiver and/or Supervisors of nursery school knowledge and skills related to health promotion. Fifty caregiver and/or Supervisors in nursery school who receive instruction about health promotion were included in the study. total of 50 caregivers were randomly selected from social region in Assuit .two tools were designed to collect knowledge, and observational check list sheet to measure caregivers practice. The first tool was A structional interview questionnaire to assess the caregiver and/or Supervisors of nursery school knowledge and second tool is observational checklist to performance of health promotion to determine the baseline data and educational needs .. lt was found that there was a great improvement of the studied sample in relation to knowledge and practice related to health promotion .Continuous education and motivation are needed for the maintenance of safe life to the preschool children in nursery school with supervisors about health promotion in the majority of nursery school of Assuit governorate e. The majority of caregiver and/or Supervisors (92%) had poor level of knowledge, Also (86%) had poor level of practice toward health promotion use play, hygiene, rest, exercise feeding. Immunization, prevent of communicable diseases and accident prevention. There are Statistical significant relationship has been found between caregivers knowledge and practice before and after application of training program. Written policy were recommended for each nursery school is suspected. This besides Adequate training program should be designed to increase the caregivers'knowledge

Education is critical to effective, safe life of preschool age and supervisors with health promotion. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of the instructional scheme upon caregiver and/or Supervisors of nursery school knowledge and skills related to health promotion. Fifty caregiver and/or Supervisors in nursery school who receive instruction about health promotion were included in the study. total of 50 caregivers were randomly selected from social region in Assuit .two tools were designed to collect knowledge, and observational check list sheet to measure caregivers practice. The first tool was A structional interview questionnaire to assess the caregiver and/or Supervisors of nursery school knowledge and second tool is observational checklist to performance of health promotion to determine the baseline data and educational needs .. lt was found that there was a great improvement of the studied sample in relation to knowledge and practice related to health promotion .Continuous education and motivation are needed for the maintenance of safe life to the preschool children in nursery school with supervisors about health promotion in the majority of nursery school of Assuit governorate e. The majority of caregiver and/or Supervisors (92%) had poor level of knowledge, Also (86%) had poor level of practice toward health promotion use play, hygiene, rest, exercise feeding. Immunization, prevent of communicable diseases and accident prevention. There are Statistical significant relationship has been found between caregivers knowledge and practice before and after application of training program. Written policy were recommended for each nursery school is suspected. This besides Adequate training program should be designed to increase the caregivers'knowledge

Every year, more than 200 million women become pregnant, and some of them 15% are likely to develop complication that will require skilled obstetric care to prevent death or serious ill health. The aim of this study was to evaluate the ongoing activities of antenatal care services and also mothers satisfaction about services provided at all maternal and child health center in Assuit City (MCH). The total number of the study sample was 971 pregnant women attended to five MCH during one month for each MCH as (260, 221 , 195, 182 & 113 from) EI-Willidia, EI-Arbaeen, EI-Hamara, Kolta and Kidwany respectively). Two tools were designed by the investigators to collect the relevant information. The first tool included an interview questioner for collect the sociodemographic characteristics of mothers, Care provided for him. The second tool was an interview questioner to know mother satisfaction about facilities and care given. The result indicated that the majority of the sample in different MCH calculate the expected date of delivery from the last menstrual period was (100 % , 91.9 %,91.3%, 85.2 %& 100 %) at El- Willidia, EI-Arbaeen, EI-Hamara, Kulta and Kidwany MCH respectively with highly statistical significant difference( p 0.0001). Also about general examination, it was found that only (13.5 %, 39 .4%, 19%, 17, % & 31 %) respectively at El-Willidia, EI -Arbaeen, EI-Hamara, Kolta and Kidwany done breast examination, while majority of him done fundal grip. Also found (100%) in all MCH centers give mother tetanus immunization. More ever the majority of the pregnant mother adviced regarding the schedule of ante natal care visit as (94.5%, 84.2 %, 89.2 %, 95.6 %& 84.1 %) respectively at El- Willidia, EI-Arbaeen, El Hamara, Kulta & Kidwany. While about mother satisfaction it was found that in some MCH the mothers not satisfied about services given as (71%, 39.4%, 38.5%, 31.3 %, 59.3%) in ElWillidia, EI-Arbaeen, EL- Hamara , Kulta and Kidwany respectively. The present study concluded that their are lack of services which produce in the different MCH in Assuit city, with different variation in mother's satisfaction for MCH services and facilities. For that investigator recommended that in-services education program for nurses working in MCH centers. Equipped all MCH centers by necessalY equipment for give a good care. Improve the quality of care by evaluate care regularly for quality antenatal services.

The study aims to identify child abuse at home in urban and rural areas of Assiut Governorate. The sample comprised 400 mothers; 200 mothers from Assuit City and 200 from three rural villages around Assuit. A questionnaire sheet was designed to collect the relevant information about child neglect (physical, medical, safety and educational) and child abuse (emotional and physical). The study was carried out during the period from January, to the end of September 2003. The study revealed that children living within overcrowded families are liable to suffer from neglect either physical, safety, medical or educational than those living in small sized families. Family instability especially traveling of parents or parental separation are important factors leading to child abuse. Neglect ( physical, safety and medical) decrease with increased live I of education. Finally safety and medical neglect are higher in rural than in urban localities.

The study aims to identify child abuse at home in urban and rural areas of Assiut Governorate. The sample comprised 400 mothers; 200 mothers from Assuit City and 200 from three rural villages around Assuit. A questionnaire sheet was designed to collect the relevant information about child neglect (physical, medical, safety and educational) and child abuse (emotional and physical). The study was carried out during the period from January, to the end of September 2003. The study revealed that children living within overcrowded families are liable to suffer from neglect either physical, safety, medical or educational than those living in small sized families. Family instability especially traveling of parents or parental separation are important factors leading to child abuse. Neglect ( physical, safety and medical) decrease with increased live I of education. Finally safety and medical neglect are higher in rural than in urban localities.

The aim of this study was to assess an educational training program for nurses working in MCH centers in Assiut regarding infection control. The study was conducted in all maternal and child health centers (MCH) in Assiut City. The total number of the study sample in all MCH centers was72 nurses. There are two tools used for data collection: an interview questiOlmaire and an observation checklist. The interview questionnaire was used before and after the program to measure the exact level of knowledge that nurses have about infection such as (definition of sterilization, proper isolation, good infection control, types of sterilization, equipment that may be sterilized in autoclave (6 questions).!t also assesses nurses knowledge about universal precaution related to blood and body fluids (16 questions) and their knowledge about hand washing (3 questions). The second tool (practice) is an observation checklist that was developed for assessing nurses' performance. Data were collected during the period from the beginning of January 2003 to October 2003. Each center takes two months. Results of this study indicated that nearly half (48.6%) of the sample were (48.6%) in the age group 20-30 years ,45.8% were over 30 years. All nurses lacked knowledge related to epidemiology only 40.2% of the nurses under study had sufficient knowledge regarding epidemiology before exposure to the program. The percentage increased to 88.9% after the administration of the program. Also the majority of nurses had adequately prepared on hand washing techniques on the post test with a statistical significant difference of

The aim of this study was to assess an educational training program for nurses working in MCH centers in Assiut regarding infection control. The study was conducted in all maternal and child health centers (MCH) in Assiut City. The total number of the study sample in all MCH centers was72 nurses. There are two tools used for data collection: an interview questiOlmaire and an observation checklist. The interview questionnaire was used before and after the program to measure the exact level of knowledge that nurses have about infection such as (definition of sterilization, proper isolation, good infection control, types of sterilization, equipment that may be sterilized in autoclave (6 questions).!t also assesses nurses knowledge about universal precaution related to blood and body fluids (16 questions) and their knowledge about hand washing (3 questions). The second tool (practice) is an observation checklist that was developed for assessing nurses' performance. Data were collected during the period from the beginning of January 2003 to October 2003. Each center takes two months. Results of this study indicated that nearly half (48.6%) of the sample were (48.6%) in the age group 20-30 years ,45.8% were over 30 years. All nurses lacked knowledge related to epidemiology only 40.2% of the nurses under study had sufficient knowledge regarding epidemiology before exposure to the program. The percentage increased to 88.9% after the administration of the program. Also the majority of nurses had adequately prepared on hand washing techniques on the post test with a statistical significant difference of