Background: Health care employees need stress reduction and burnout prevention more than ever thought. Aim of study: to evaluate the effect of an intervention program on job stressors and burnout among preretirement employees in Health Insurance Hospital at 10th of Ramadan city. Subjects and Methods: The study was carried out in the Health Insurance Hospital at 10th of Ramadan city using a quasi-experimental design with pre-post assessment on a convenience sample of 100 preretirement employees. A self-administered questionnaire was used in data collection with scales for assessment of job stress and strain, and burnout. The fieldwork was achieved from July to December 2017. Results: Participants were mostly females (67%), at 50-year age (45%). The highest job stressor was the clinic-related one (73%). In total, 63% had high stressors at pre-intervention phase, compared to 29% and 36% at post-and follow-up phases respectively (p<0.001). Also, 36% had high strains before the intervention, which significantly dropped to 20% after the intervention, and to 13% at follow-up. Overall, 29% had high burnout before the intervention, which significantly declined to 9% at postintervention phase, but increased again to 36% at follow-up phase. In multivariate analysis, the intervention was the main significant independent negative predictor of employees’ stress and strain scores, while the stress score was a significant positive predictor of the total burnout score. Conclusion and Recommendations: The intervention program is effective in reducing the levels of stress, strain, and burnout. It is recommended to implement it in the study settings and in similar ones, with improvements of its burnout aspects.

Introduction: The aged have to cope-up with many physical and mental health problems with advancing age requiring constant attention. Depression, Hypertension, Arthritis, Dementia and Alzheimer’s are highly prevalent among the aged. Alzheimer’s disease is known to men only since 100 years, Alzheimer’s disease is a form of dementia. Dementia is derived from the Latin word de – “apart, away” and “mens” – mind. Dementia is a progressive brain dysfunction which result in a restriction of daily activities and in most cases leads in the long term to the need for care. Dementia is the most feared and divesting disorder of late life. Current estimates reveals that there are about 18 million cases of dementia in the world and by 2025, there will be about 34 million suffering from dementia. The overall prevalence of dementia ranges from 5 percent to 7 percent. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common dementing disorder accounting for 80 percent of all cases of dementia. Material & Methods: Anon-experimental, descriptivedesign was adopted to assess the knowledge of adult regarding Alzheimer’s disease in a view to develop information booklet.The study was conducted on 100adults, who are in the age group of between 21 – 50 years from mansarowar area of Jaipur city, who fulfill the inclusion criteria for the study. Data was collected from Jan 2014 to August 2014.A structured interview schedule was used to assess the knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease. Results: The data revealed that, there is significant association between level of knowledge and educational status, marital status and family .Major findings of study revealed that Out of 100 adults 16 percent had adequate knowledge 37 percent had moderate knowledge and 47 percent had inadequate knowledge on Alzheimer’s disease. The overall mean value of the adult’s knowledge regarding Alzheimer’s disease was 53.9 percent; mean were 16.17 and standard deviation of 15.5. Conclusion: After the detailed analysis of this study shows that nearly 50% of population does not have adequate knowledge about Alzheimer’s disease, hence information booklet will definitely help to increase their knowledge to facilitate better care for Alzheimer’s disease.

Chronic renal failure (CRF) is a life-threatening disease in which a patient needs a long-term treatment such as hemodialysis, kidney replacement to save his life. Aim: this study was aimed to identify the relation between stressors, self efficacy and level of hope for patients with CRF, undergoing hemodialysis. Design: a descriptive correlation research design was utilized in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at King Fahd unit for hemodialysis at, ELManial hospital, Cairo University. Subjects: a purposive sample of 160 patients with CRF undergoing hemodialysis. Tool of data collection: Socio-demographic datasheet,hemodialysis stressor scale(HSS) ,self efficacy scale &Herth hope scale. Results: Showed that more than two thirds of the studied subjects undergoing hemodialysis for more than 24 months less than two third of them were suffering from moderate degree of stress, more than fifty percent of the studied subjects had high levels of hope, while less than fifty percent of them had a moderate level of hope. Conclusion: The highest percentage of the studied subjects were suffering from moderate degree of psychosocial stressors, such as depression, sadness, changed in family responsibility and dependence on others, statistically significant negative correlation was found between stress and self-efficacy. Moreover, a negative correlation was found between stress and level of hope while, there is no, statistically significant correlation between self-efficacy and level of hope. Recommendation: Supportive and therapeutic intervention program should be provided for both patients with chronic renal failure and their families to alleviate their stress ,increase sense of hope and improve their quality of life.

Background: A number of studies conducted in different parts of India on HIV/AIDS awareness revealed widespread ignorance and misconceptions about this deadly disease among young people. Methods: This cross sectional was conducted among BSc Nursing students in Shimla city. A purposive sampling technique was used to select the BSc nursing college and 25 nursing students from each study year (1st to 4th) were included. Information regarding their knowledge, regarding HIV/AIDS was obtained using a self-administered, pre-tested, semi-structured questionnaire. Data was analyzed using Epi info v7 software using appropriate statistical tests. Results: Mean age of the participated 100 BSc. Nursing students was 20.26 ± 2.360 years. 13% BSc. Nursing students having very good knowledge, 67% having good knowledge, 19 % had fair knowledge and 1% have poor knowledge about cause, mode of spread, prevention, control and treatment of HIV/AIDS. A statistically significant difference was found among the mean knowledge score between different study years of nursing students. Conclusions: These findings indicate that there is need to further increase the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS which can be increased by structured teaching programmes and awareness workshops for the nursing students.