Antipsychotics-related Knowledge of Nurses working at Baghdad Psychiatric Teaching Hospitals Al-Salhee Ali Mlaghy Shakhat1,*, Al-Ameri Maan Hameed Ibrahim2 1Psychiatric and Mental health Nursing, Ministry of Health, Iraq 2Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing Department College of Nursing, University of Baghdad, Iraq *Corresponding author: Ali Mlaghy Shakhat Al-Salhee, Psychiatric and Mental health Nursing, Ministry of Health, Iraq
Online published on 2 February, 2019. Abstract Objectives: To assess the nurses ’knowledge regarding antipsychotics at Baghdad psychiatric hospitals. The study was carried out in Ibn-Rushed Psychiatric teaching hospital and al-Rashad Psychiatric teaching hospital. Starting from 18th of February 2018 to 1st of December 2018. The data were collected by the using self-reported questionnaire which consists of general information such as age, gender, level of education, experience in hospitals, and training course and a scale that assess nurses ’knowledge about antipsychotic medication and consists of 30 items related to knowledge about mechanism of action, indications, names of typical and atypical antipsychotics, and contraindications. The content validity of the instrument was determined through the penal of (18) experts. The study found that male (58.0%) are more than female (42.0), highest percentage of the participants is within 30–39 years old. 36.0% of participants have one to fve years of experience in general wards but 42.0% of them have one to fve years of experience in psychiatric wards and the majority of them (80.0%) have not participated in training course regarding antipsychotics medications and about half of them are with diploma, Levels of antipsychotic-related knowledge were approximately all of sample were around low. Top Keywords Antipsychotics, Knowledge, nurses, Baghdad, hospitals. Top |