Effectiveness of planned training program on knowledge regarding management of patient with violent behavior among staff nurses of selected Hospitals of Sonitpur District, Assam.

Acute care settings such as emergency departments, psychiatric emergency rooms, and inpatient or outpatient psychiatric settings should be considered high-risk work sites, given the degree of acuity and potential for seeming chaos. These settings are prime examples of workplaces that can create or exacerbate volatile situations, potentially ending in violent acts. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the planned training program on knowledge regarding management of patient with violent behavior among staff nurses. The main objectives of the study are (1) To assess the pre- interventional knowledge of staff nurses regarding management of patients with violent behavior with self -structured questionnaire (2) To assess the effectiveness of planned training program on knowledge regarding management of violent patients with the self structured questionnaire. (3) To associate pre interventional knowledge of staff nurses regarding management of violent patients with selected demographic variables. (3) To compare pre-interventional staff knowledge score of psychiatric and non-psychiatric hospital. The result shows that demographic data of the study subjects showed that most of the staff nurses were between 21-25 years of age (51.7%) and (16.7%) were between 26-30 years of age. Majority of the staff nurses were female (93.3%), and (6.7%) were male. Most of the staff nurses (38.3%) were having 2-5yrs of experience and (33.3%) were having 1month -1 year of work experience. Most of the staff nurses (50.0%) were working in psychiatric ward and (26.7%) were working in other wards. Majority of the staff nurses (53.3%) had no experience working with violent patient and (46.7%) had experience working with violent patients. Majority of the staff nurses (100%) have not attended any in-service education on management of patient with violent behavior. The mean value of the pre-test scores was 34.8 with a standard deviation of 4.28 and the mean value of the post-test was 40.2 with a standard deviation of 4.58. The calculated value of paired ‘t’ test of knowledge scores of post-test and pre-test was 7.08 with a ‘df’ of 59 which was greater than tabulated value of 2.00 which is significant at the 0.05 level of significance. So a significant effect of training program was found on knowledge scores of the staff nurses regarding management of patient with violent behavior. There was no significant association between the pre-test knowledge scores and selected demographic variables (?2 for age, work experience, current work setting, previous experience with patient violent behavior were 1.62, 0 .59, 0 .59, 1.36, 5.99 at ‘df’ of 2. There was no significant difference between the pre-test knowledge scores of staff nurses of non- psychiatric and psychiatric hospitals at ‘t’ value 0.99 at ‘df’ of 58.