EFFECTIVENESS OF SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE ON KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING LEGAL ASPECTS IN PSYCHIATRIC HEALTHCARE AMONG STAFF NURSES WORKING IN SELECTED PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS, LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH.

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Miss Anushika Singh, Mrs. Ekjot Kaur

Self-Instructional Module, Legal Aspects in Psychiatric Health care, Staff Nurses.

Nursing is an integral part of the health care system and health care professionals direct their services towards the prevention, promotion, maintenance and restoration of health. In the new world of nursing practice, knowledge regarding medico-legal aspects in nursing has been emerged as an immediate concern to prevent the lawsuit. In attempting to practice within legal limits, psychiatric nurses must demonstrate safe and acceptable clinical practice. It is thus imperative that all nurses should be aware of their responsibility to the patients and also sensitive to medico-legal issues if quality health care is to be assured. The present study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of self-instructional module on knowledge and attitude regarding legal aspects in psychiatric health care among staff nurses working in psychiatric health care. The objectives of the study (i) assess the level of knowledge and attitude regarding legal aspects in psychiatric health care among staff nurses, (ii) to evaluate the effectiveness of self-instructional module regarding legal aspects in psychiatric health care among staff nurses, (iii) to associate pre-test knowledge and attitude regarding legal aspects in psychiatric health care among staff nurses with their sociodemographic variables (iv) to determine the correlation between test knowledge and attitude regarding legal aspects in psychiatric health care among staff nurses at selected hospital, Lucknow. U.P. A Preexperimental one group pre test post test only design was used for study. 60 Staff students were taken a sample who fulfill the inclusion criteria. Simple Random Sampling technique was used. SocioDemographic questionnaire, Structured Knowledge questionnaire and Likert type Attitude scale were the tools used for data collection. The overall result revealed that the knowledge level in pre-test was majority of the staff nurses 46 (76.66%) were having inadequate knowledge, 14 (23.33%) were having moderate knowledge and none of the staff nurse having adequate knowledge and pre-test mean score and Standard Deviation (7.85 and 4.546). The knowledge level in Post-test was majority of the staff nurses 56 (93.33%) were having adequate knowledge, 4 (6.66%) were having moderate knowledge and none of the staff nurses having inadequate knowledge. the Post test mean score and Standard Deviation (25.56 and 4.014). The attitude of the staff nurses in pre-test was maximum staff nurse 57 (95%) had negative attitude and only 3 (5%) staff nurses had positive attitude. Pre-test score mean score and standard deviation (29.25 and 8.310). In post- test, majority of the staff nurses 60(100%) had positive attitude and none of the staff nurses had negative attitude. Post-test mean score and Standard Deviation (51.11 and 4.794). Conclusion: This study revealed that the self-instructional module found effective in enhancing the staff nurses knowledge regarding legal aspects in psychiatric health care as well as it also changes staff nurses attitude in a positive way.

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Miss Anushika Singh & Mrs. Ekjot Kaur (November-2022). EFFECTIVENESS OF SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE ON KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING LEGAL ASPECTS IN PSYCHIATRIC HEALTHCARE AMONG STAFF NURSES WORKING IN SELECTED PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS, LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH. . INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NOVEL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, 7(11), a558-a567. https://ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2211062.pdf

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