Red Flower's Journal of Psychiatric Nursing

An assault on health professionals in the workplace is a public health and legal problem. Violence against nurses is a silent epidemic. Until relatively recently, little attention had been paid to this problem. Objectives: The objectives of the study were to assess the pattern & impact of workplace violence and misconduct on nurses and to seek out the association between selected demographic variables and impact of workplace violence and misconduct on nurses. Materials and Methods: Quantitative research approach with non-experimental exploratory survey design was selected for the present study. The sampling technique chosen was purposive sampling technique for a sample size of 60 nurses who fulfilled the criteria through structured questionnaire. The sample chosen was nurses from General hospitals of Hyderabad. The tool consisted of Part A demographic profile with 10 variables. Part B consisted a three-point Likert Scale to assess the pattern of workplace violence. Part C consisted of a three-point Likert Scale to assess the impact of workplace violence and misconduct. Part D consisted of a Checklist to assess the Pattern of misconduct on nurses. We analysed the scores using descriptive and inferential analysis. Association between them was performed using Pearson correlation. Statistical significance was taken to be p < 0.05. Results: The study results revealed that majority of the nurses were under the age group of 21-30 years and most of them were females, also they had 2-3 years of work experience followed by larger portion of them pursued Post Basic BSc nursing and surprisingly study subjects reported that they have been suffered from workplace violence from colleagues and patient’s attenders. The study subjects have undergone workplace violence and misconduct at workplace such as bullying (100%), physical (28.3%), verbal (100%) and sexual violence (50%) followed by official (100%) and sexual misconduct (55%). The study subjects also revealed that major proportion of the nurses experienced bullying, verbal violence, sexual violence and physical violence under the pattern of workplace violence and suffered from mild, moderate and severe impact due to workplace violence. Of the 60 nurses, all of them had suffered from official misconduct at workplace followed by 33 of the study subjects had experienced from sexual violence at workplace and faced mild, moderate and severe impact from misconduct. There was a no significant association between impact of workplace violence with selected demographic variables like age, gender, religion, years of work experience, marital status, education, department, designation, shift timings, relationship with abuser. Also, there was no significant association between impact of misconduct and the selected demographic variables. Conclusion: Implementing prevention programmes will help the nurse to be free from difficulties and can reduce the statistics of workplace violence and misconduct. Keywords: Attitude; Information Booklet; Adult; Mental Illness.

Background: Awareness for mental illness is a key concept for good mental health in India. A good mental health completes the circle of health which not only includes physical but also includes mental health. Material & Methods: A non equivalent control group quasi experimental design was used. There were 40 adult of selected community were selected using purposive sampling technique. In this study 2 groups (20 experimental and 20 control group) were selected. During data collection information booklet were given to experimental group only. Reliability was calculated. Reliability of tool was established by Split Half method and Spearmen Brown prophecy formula and it was 0.83. The obtained data was analyzed and interpreted in terms of objectives and research hypothesis. Analysis was done by using descriptive and inferential statics. Result: Score of attitude assessed by structured attitude scale the mean score of structured attitude scale among experimental group was 124.4 with SD of +/- 8.22, among control group was 77.2 with SD of +/- 14.05 and the computed ‘t’ value was 6.4 This indicates that there were significant difference in the post interventional score of attitude among experimental group and control group at the level of P< 0.05. Keywords: Attitude; Information Booklet; Adult; Mental Illness.

The outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a pandemic. Till date, no antiviral treatment or vaccine has been explicitly recommended for this. Thus, preventive measures are the only most critical intervention. Health care workers (HCWs) are the primary sector in contact with the patients. They are struggling with issues such as social stigmatization, shortage of personal protection equipment supplies, frequent witnessing of death, fear of transmission of infection to self and to the family, and heavy workload. All these things put them in lots of stress, still they are providing care continuously. Being human sometime they may not be themselves and become the reason for poor feedback from the patients. The current study indicates that, almost all patients (above 90%) were satisfied with the admission and discharge procedures but an average of 50% only satisfied with the communication of the HCWs and involvement in the decision making process. Irrespective of the stress HCWs are trying their level best to provide good care and to achieve patient satisfaction, is appreciable. Keywords: Feedback; COVID; Survivors; Services; Hospitals.

Background of study: According to the WHO, more than 800,000 people die by suicide a year, making it the principal cause of death among people 1 5-29 years old. An annual global age-standardized suicide rate of 11.4 per 100 000 populations in which 15.0 are males and 8.0 are females. Objectives of the study: To assess the levels of knowledge regarding risk factors and prevention of suicide among the adolescents. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding risk factors and prevention of suicide among adolescents. To find significant association between the pre-test knowledge score with selected socio-demographic variables. Methodology: One group pre-test and post-test design was used for this study. The independent variable in this study is planned teaching programme on knowledge regarding risk factors and prevention of suicide among adolescents. The study was conducted at selected college at Solapur. Sample includes 60 adolescents who fulfils the inclusion criteria were selected by non-probability purposive sampling technique. Result: The pre-test mean score is 13.41±2.64 which is 31.92% and post-test mean score is 17.58±3.08 which is 73.25% with a difference of 41.33%.The paired’ test value is 7.35 which is significantly higher than the table value of 2.0009 at p≤0.05 level. Thus the structured teaching programme is effective in improving the knowledge regarding Risk factors and Prevention of suicide among Adolescents. There was no significant association found between the knowledge regarding Risk factors and Preventive measures of suicidal behavior among adolescents with their age, gender, and type of family, history of suicide or suicidal attempt, history of mental illness, history of substance abuse and source of information but there is significant association with area of residence at p≤0.05 level. Conclusion: This study intervention would help the adolescent to run healthy life without any distress, reduce the risk of suicidal behavior and also encourage them also to help those who have suicidal risk in the public or among friends. Keywords: Structured Teaching Programme; Prevention of Suicide.