A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Program on Management of Adverse Effects of Antipsychotics in Terms of Knowledge and Attitude among the Staff Nurses working in Govt. Hospital for Mental Health at Gujarat State

Background- Antipsychotics medications are also called ‘neuroleptics or major tranquilizer. They are effective in the treatment of acute and chronic manifestations of schizophrenia and other psychotic conditions Without drug treatment, an estimated 72% of individual who have experienced a psychotic episode relapse within a year. This relapse rate can be reduced to about 23% with continuous medication administration. Aims and Objectives-1. To Assess the Knowledge Regarding Management of Adverse Effects of Antipsychotics before and after implementation of planned teaching program among staff nurses. 2. To Assess the Attitude Regarding Management of Adverse Effects of Antipsychotics before and after implementation of planned teaching program among staff nurses. 3. To find out the correlation between of post test knowledge score and post test attitude score regarding management of adverse effects of antipsychotics among staff nurses. 4. To find out the association between of pre test knowledge score regarding management of adverse effects of antipsychotics among staff nurses with demographic variables. And 5. To find the association between of pre test attitude score regarding management of adverse effects of antipsychotics among staff nurses with demographic variables. Material and Method- Quasi Experimental Research approach used with One Group pre-test and post-test Design. The investigator has used simple random Sampling Techniques for selecting 60 Staff nurses. A Structured Knowledge Questionnaire and Likert’s Attitude Scale were prepared to assess the Knowledge and Attitude of the samples. Result- Mean pre-test knowledge score was 12.62 while Mean post-test knowledge score was 21.55 and the difference was 8.93. The Standard Deviation (SD) of pre-test and post-test knowledge was 2.48 and 2.47 respectively. The calculated ‘t’ value is 29.91which higher than the tabulated ‘t’ value 2.00, which indicates the increased knowledge. Mean Pre-test attitude score was 63.15 while Mean Post-test attitude score was 79.43 and the difference was 16.28. The Standard Deviation (SD) of pre-test and post-test attitude was 4.07 and 3.63 respectively. The calculated ‘t’ value is 26.46 which higher than the tabulated ‘t’ value 2.00, which indicates the increased attitude. The Correlation Coefficient was obtained using Karl Pearson's formula which yielded r=0.155. It suggests Positive Correlation between the Post-test Knowledge Score and Post-test Attitude Score of Samples. Association of selected Demographic Variables with the Pretest Knowledge and Attitude score was computed using Chi Square test and it showed that there is no Significant association between them. Data demonstrated that there was significant increase in the Knowledge and Attitude on Management of adverse effects of antipsychotics after Implementation of Planned Teaching Programme. Hence it is proved that Planned Teaching Programme on Management of adverse effects of antipsychotics was effective in improving knowledge and attitude among Staff nurses working in govt. Hospital for Mental health at Gujarat state.