(1) Background: Childhood fever is a frequent reason for health care visits. Parents are worried about fever and its complications and show variation between their knowledge about managing fever and real practice, which are affected by many factors and beliefs. This study aimed to assess knowledge of Egyptian mothers about fever of preschool children and its domestic management and the relation between them and to identify sociodemographic factors affecting mothers’ knowledge and practice. (2) Methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted at the pediatric outpatient clinic at Zagazig University Hospitals among 297 mothers with preschool children. A structured questionnaire consisting of three parts assessed the sociodemographic characteristics, mothers’ knowledge about childhood fever, and its management practices. (3) Results: 37.7% of mothers had good knowledge about childhood fever, and 23.9% showed good management practices. Young mothers, less number of children, high education, sufficient income, and good knowledge were the significant predictors of domestic management practices towards childhood fever. (4) Conclusions: The Egyptian mothers showed insufficient levels of knowledge and domestic management practices towards preschool childhood fever. Health education interventions should be targeted to mothers to improve their knowledge and practice.

Objective: To evaluate the audiologists' attitudes and practice towards teleaudiology, as well as to assess the audiological services provided in Egypt and Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among 112 audiologists who were recruited through convenience sampling . Multinomial logistic regression was used to test the association between practice of tele audiology as a dependent variable and some independent variables. Results: 25.4% of the studied sample were practicing tele audiology. Participants' age and attitude toward telemedicine were the independent predictors of tele audiology practice at p value < 0.05.Conclusion: The tele audiology practice is essential. Therefore, raising the knowledge of audiologist about the great value of practicing tele audiology is very important, infrastructure, equipment, and technology especially telecommunication should be improved and facilitated for both audiologist and patients.(c) 2021 PLA General Hospital Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery. Production and hosting by Elsevier (Singapore) Pte Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Background: Assessing the hesitancy towards a new vaccine is of worldwide concern, as a delay in vaccination may give rise to the development of new mutant variants that can attack immunity conferred by previous infection or vaccine. Aim: This study aimed to design and validate a scale to assess the hesitancy towards newly produced vaccine based on health belief model traditional variables with application on COVID-19 vaccines. Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted among heterogeneous group of Egyptian citizens above 18 years old. A survey was distributed on social media platforms between June 1, 2021, and June 30, 2021. The design and evaluation of the scale went through three phases: item development, scale development, and evaluation. Results: The sampling adequacy of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure was 0.8 at significance level of Bartlett's test of sphericity Conclusion: The designed scale to assess hesitancy towards new vaccines based on health belief model was valid among the studied population; also, it was a reliable scale according to Cronbach’s alpha.

Background: The quality of life of hearing-impaired individuals can be greatly improved by hearing aids. However, there is a negative stigma about hearing aids for various reasons including social issues. Aim: This study aimed to assess the public perspectives and awareness of basic communication strategies towards hearing aids users among the Egyptian population. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on the Egyptian population who were enlisted through convenience sampling. Chi-square test was calculated to measure the association of public perspectives and communication strategies towards hearing aids users with demographic and personal characteristics. Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the independent predictors of good communication strategies intended to be practiced with hearing aids users. Results: 29.7% and 46.1% of the studied sample had average and good perspectives towards hearing aids users, and 27.1% and 49% of them had average and good awareness about communication strategies towards hearing aids users. Logistic regression analysis presented that the younger aged participants, workers in the medical sector, and those who were not having a close person wearing hearing aids were the significant independent predictors of good communication strategies towards hearing aids users. Conclusion: This study revealed good public perspectives and awareness of communication strategies towards hearing aids users, however, it is insufficient. Hence, raising the awareness of public about the importance of hearing aids for hearing-impaired individuals and basic communication strategies towards hearing aids users are recommended.