Nurses` Performance Regarding Care of Patients Undergoing Electroconvulsive Therapy | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Article 57, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2022, Pages 757-768 PDF (371.73 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.265089 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Mahmoud Taha Abd El-Raof1; Zeinab Abd El hameed Loutfi2; Amal Elias Abdel-Aziz3 | ||
| 1B.Sc. Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Fayoum University, | ||
| 2Professor of Psychiatric - Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing – Ain Shams University | ||
| 3Assistant professor of Psychiatric - Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing – Ain Shams University. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) remains an important treatment in contemporary psychiatric medicine for many patients with severe mood and psychotic disorders. Despite the development of newer brain stimulation techniques and novel pharmacological agents, no treatment has approached the efficacy of ECT in these patients population. Aim : This study aimed to assess nurses` performance regarding care of patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy. Design: A descriptive study design. Setting: The study was carried out in the ECT room at El -Khanka Psychiatric Hospital, affiliated to the General Secretariat of Mental Health. Sample: A convenient sample of all available nurses at the ECT room who are working with patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy. They were 40 nurse (22 males and 18 females). Tools: I.Nurses self- administered questionnaire, include: Part 1: Nurses-demographic characteristics; Part 2: Nurses` knowledge regarding care of patients undergoing ECT. II. Nurses’ observational checklist. Results: Knowledge about electroconvulsive therapy. more than one- third (40.0%) of the studied nurses had good total knowledge, Nearly three-quarter (72.0%) of studied nurses did the total nursing performance before, during and in the recovery room after Electroconvulsive therapy sessions. Majority (80.0%) of studied nurses have total training Conclusion: There was highly statistically significant relationship between the total knowledge scores with the levels of performance score and the total performance score, there was statistically significant relationship between nurses` knowledge level about electroconvulsive therapy and their age. Recommendations: It is important t6o conduct education program about ECT to psychiatric-mental health nurses, providing psychiatric-mental health nurses with many courses such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the nurses should conduct further researches about electroconvulsive therapy | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Electroconvulsive Therapy; Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome; Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | ||
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