A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SELF –INSTRUCTIONAL MODULE ON KNOWLEDGE REGARDING MANAGEMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES AMONG 3rd YEAR B.Sc. NURSING STUDENTS OF A SELECTED COLLEGE OF NURSING JAIPUR , RAJASTHAN.

Abstract

Introduction: A psychiatric emergency is an acute disturbance of behavior, thought or mood of a patient which if
untreated may lead to harm, either to the individual or to others in the environment. Professionals, working in
psychiatric emergency services setting are usually under a high risk of violence due to mental state of their
patients. So through adequate knowledge regarding management of psychiatric emergencies are needed for
proper care and services.
Material and Methods; A pre experimental one group pre test-post test design was used for the study. The sample
consisted of 48 subjects selected by convenient sampling technique. A structured knowledge questionnaire was
used to collect the data. After the pre test a SIM was administered to the subjects and on the seventh day post test
was conducted with the same knowledge questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed by using descriptive
and inferential statistics.
Results; The mean post test knowledge scores obtained by subjects -28.22 was higher than mean pre test score-
15.55. Paired' t' test was done to find out the significant difference between Mean pre test and mean post test
knowledge score was found highly significant .The calculated 't' value is (20.33) is higher than the table value
(t =1.96). It indicated high significance. The finding shows that SIM was highly effective in improving the 47
knowledge of students (p<0.001).There was no significant association between student nurses knowledge
regarding management of psychiatric emergencies and selected socio-demographic variables at 0.05 level of
significance.
Conclusion; Findings of the study showed that the knowledge scores of student nurses were very poor before the
introduction the SIM. Hence SIM was an effective strategy for providing information and to improve knowledge
of student nurses.