Effectiveaness of an Educational Program on Nurses’ Knowledge toward Restraint and Seclusion for inpatients at Psychiatric Teaching Hospitals Abdel-Hussein Nibras. H.1, Mohamed Saja. H.2 1Academic Nursing Specialist, Babylon Director, Ministry of Health, Iraq 2Psychiatric and mental Health Nursing Department College of Nursing, University of Babylon, Iraq Online published on 2 February, 2019. Abstract A quasi-experimental design is carried throughout the present study with the application of test-retest approach of pre-test, post-test I, and post-test II; for the study sample, the sample consisted of (25) nurse ((11) male and (14) female) were selected from AL-Rashad Psychiatric Teaching Hospital in Baghdad City, during the period of 1st November 2017 to 16th September 2018. In the pre-test; post-test design in the dependent variable is measured before implementing the program and two after implementing the program for nurses. The data was collected by questionnaire which consisted of two parts, frst part consists socio demographic data, Second part is about restraint and seclusion which designed through the use of multiple choice question, a numerical value was given to each rating point; (1) for right answer, and (0) for the wrong answer. In the present study, data were analyzed through the use of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS), version 21. The fnding of the study indicated that The nurses had little training about how to deal with agitated patients in psychiatric wards. Most of the nurses who participated in the study have preparative school graduates, and they have an extremely low level of knowledge more than others. Top Keywords Educational Program, Knowledge, Restraint, and Seclusion. Top |