El-Salamony, A., Elsher, D., Shalaby, M., Badawy, P. (2019). Effect of Psycho- Educational Program about Violence on Nurses' Knowledge and Practice. test, 16(1), 55-77. doi: 10.21608/tsnj.2019.71341
Amina Ahmed Wahba El-Salamony; Dr. Zebeda Abd-Elgwad Elsher; Mervat Hosny Shalaby; Prof. Adel Abd El Kareem Badawy. "Effect of Psycho- Educational Program about Violence on Nurses' Knowledge and Practice". test, 16, 1, 2019, 55-77. doi: 10.21608/tsnj.2019.71341
El-Salamony, A., Elsher, D., Shalaby, M., Badawy, P. (2019). 'Effect of Psycho- Educational Program about Violence on Nurses' Knowledge and Practice', test, 16(1), pp. 55-77. doi: 10.21608/tsnj.2019.71341
El-Salamony, A., Elsher, D., Shalaby, M., Badawy, P. Effect of Psycho- Educational Program about Violence on Nurses' Knowledge and Practice. test, 2019; 16(1): 55-77. doi: 10.21608/tsnj.2019.71341

Effect of Psycho- Educational Program about Violence on Nurses' Knowledge and Practice

Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal
Article 3, Volume 16, Issue 1, May 2019, Pages 55-77    PDF (626 K)
Document Type: Original Article
DOI: 10.21608/tsnj.2019.71341
Authors
Amina Ahmed Wahba El-Salamony1; Dr. Zebeda Abd-Elgwad Elsher2; Mervat Hosny Shalaby2; Prof. Adel Abd El Kareem Badawy3
1Assistant lecture of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Dept. Faculty of Nursing kafr Elshiekh University.
2Assistant Prof. of Psychiatric & Mental Health Nursing Dept. Faculty of Nursing Tanta University
3Professor of Neuropsychiatry Department Faculty of Medicine Tanta University
Abstract
Background: Violent behavior of psychiatric patients is a public health problem. It presents obvious risks of injuries or death of assailants and their victims. Aim: this study aimed to evaluate the effect of the psycho-educational program about violence on nurses' knowledge and practice. Design: A quasi- experimental research design was utilized in this study. Setting: The study was conducted at Tanta Psychiatric and Mental Health Hospital affiliated to ministry of health and population. Tanta city, Algharbya Governorate, Egypt. Subject: A sample of 50 randomly selected psychiatric nurses were recruited for this study. Tools: Two tools were used to collect data; tool I part1: socio-demographic characteristics for nurses, part2: Structured Nurse's Knowledge Questionnaire. Tool II: Observational Checklist for Nurses' Practice Related to Patient Violence. Results: The main result of this study revealed, highly significant improvement in nurses' level of knowledge and practices toward violent patient after implementation of psycho-educational program. Also, there were statistically significant positive correlation between nurses' level of knowledge and level of practice related to psychiatric patients' violence immediately after and 3 months after implementation of the educational program where (r =0.861, P=0.019) (r =0.418, P= 0.003) respectively. But, there were no statistically correlation between nurses' level of knowledge and practice related to violence before implementing the program as r = 0.180, P= 0.211. Conclusion: The present study concluded that, the educational program sessions played an important role in improvements of nurses' level of knowledge and practices toward violent patient. Recommendations: This study recommended implementing further educational program for nurses concerning the pattern of communication and behavioral management for violent patients is very important.

Keywords
Key words: Educational Program; violence; Nurses' Knowledge; Nurses' Practice
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