Assessment of the Client's Psychological Wellbeing at Outpatient Consultancy Clinics of Al-Sadder Teaching Hospital in Al Amara City Rishawi Mizher Khlif Hsony Al1,*, Al-Juboori Ali Kareem2 1Academic Nursing Specialist, High Institute of Health Vocational, Ministry of Health, Iraq 2Department of psychiatric and mental health nursing, College of Nursing, University of Kerbala, Iraq *Corresponding author: Mizher Khlif Hsony Al Rishawi. Academic Nursing Specialist, High Institute of Health Vocational, Ministry of Health, Iraq; E-mail: mizheralsaraji@gmail.com.
Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract The aim of the study is to assess the client's psychological wellbeing at outpatient consultancy clinics of Al Sadder teaching hospital. A descriptive analytic study design was carried out at outpatient consultancy clinics of Al-Sadder Teaching Hospital from march 14 th to June 12 th 2018. Non-probability (purposive) sample of 200 clients who were coming to the Outpatient Consultancy Clinics were selected. The assessment of the client's psychological wellbeingthrough the Ryff scales of psychological well-beingconsists of 42 items of statements that measure client's psychological well-being;and these statements are loaded into 6 dimensions including: autonomy; environmental mastery; personal growth; positive relations with others; purpose in life and self acceptance. Reliability of instrument was determined through the use of Alpha Cronbach approach and the instrument validity was determined through a panel of experts. The analysis of the datawas useddescriptive statistics frequencies, percentages, mean, standard deviationand Chi square. In order to assess the level of client's psychological wellbeing. The findings of the present study reveal that nearly half of clients (44.5%) have high level of psychological wellbeing, 32% of clients have low level of psychological wellbeing, whereas only 23.5% of the clients have moderate level of psychological wellbeing. Top Keywords Assessment, Clients, Psychological Wellbeing, Outpatient, Consultancy Clinics. Top |