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Background: Most autism spectrum disorder (ASD) interventions evaluated child outcomes and ignoring the role of parent and family factors on both the immediate- and long-term effects of therapy. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between stigma, parent mental health problems, and quality of life and burden in families of children with ASD in Egypt and its risk factors. Seventy parents of ASD children were recruited from two child intervention centers. Participants were divided into two groups based on burden scale: caregivers of moderate burden (n = 27) and caregivers of severe burden (n = 43). All parents were evaluated for demographic data, zarit Burden Interview, socioeconomic scale, symptom checklist–90 (SCL90), Explanatory Model Interview Catalogue Community Stigma Scale (EMIC-CSS), and the World Health Organization Quality of Life–BREF (WHOQOL-BREF). Results: Half of the parents reported significant stigma, particularly caregivers with a severe burden. Caregivers with severe burden had more depression and about twice the frequency of sensitivity and somatization problems, lower QoL (20%) as compared with caregivers with moderate burden. Parents with ASD had many associate factors such as work, male autistic children and their caregiver, age of children and parents, the severity of the condition, and disease duration with burden, stigma, QoL, and mental health problems. Conclusions: This study linked the interrelationships between increased burden and stigma, impaired quality of life, and parental mental health problems; the presence of one of these variables was found to increase the risk of other variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: The study aimed to determine the levels of psychological problems as fear of COVID-19, depression, loneliness, and psychological stresses in Egypt society. Method: Sample included 212 (M=33.44, SD=11.55), sex 62 (29.2%) male and 150 (70.8%) female, and social status 79 (37.3%) non-married and 133 (62.7%) married. The study depended on checklist included 8 psychological problems (α= 0.87). Data were analyzed by Descriptive statistics and bootstrap T. Results: the result revealed that 74.62% of respondents reported moderate to high fear of covid-19, 59.4% reported moderate to high psychological stresses, 60.4% reported moderate to high boredom and distress, 45.3% moderate to high frustration, and 52.4% moderate to high loneliness, 87.2% reported moderate to high the family anxiety. There are significant differences between male and female on the most psychological problems for except the loneliness. Conclusion: The findings would need to be verified in large and different populations in Egypt society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the current research is to identify the nature of some psychological problems caused by Coronavirus Covied -19 among a sample of 746 students from Egyptian universities. (Governmental and private), to reach the results of the research, a measure of psychological problems was used by university students, and the researchers relied on the descriptive analytical approach, and the results concluded that boredom is one of the most psychological problems experienced by university students at the current time, as university students suffer with Jerk medium of other psychological problems, as research concluded there is a statistically significant difference in the psychological problems due to the variables of gender, age, and there is no statistically significant difference was due to the variable environment, and to search a set of recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]