1PG Student, Department of Mental Health Nursing, Father Muller College of Nursing, Mangalore, Karnataka
2Professor & HOD, Department of Mental Health Nursing, Father Muller College of Nursing, Mangalore, Karnataka
*Corresponding author: Prof. Agnes Elizabeth Jose, Department of Mental Health Nursing, Father Muller College of Nursing, Mangalore, Karnataka Email: agnesej2011@fathermuller.in
Online published on 24 February, 2017.
The importance of the psychosocial environment to patients suffering from severe mental illness is well established. Staff nurses become an important factor of the patient's environment when they are getting admitted in hospitals. Expressed emotion of health care professionals is found to be an important factor that influence medication compliance and recovery process of patients.
To assess the expressed emotion of staff nurses as perceived by psychiatric patients
To find the association of expressed emotion of staff nurses as perceived by patients with selected demographic variables of patients
To prepare and validate self instructional guide for staff nurses on handling expressed emotion.
The data was collected from 64 psychiatric patients recruited by purposive sampling technique from psychiatric wards and OPD and Expressed Emotion Scale was administered by structured interview method. The self instructional guide for staff nurses to reduce expressed emotion was prepared and validated.
The study findings showed that the mean expressed emotion scores of staff nurses as perceived by patients was low (5.84±5.41). There was no association between expressed emotion of staff nurses as perceived by patients and selected baseline variables of patients (p>0.05)
The study findings showed that patients perceived staff nurses to be having low expressed emotion. The low level of expressed emotion among the staff nurses is one of the factors that will promote the recovery and prevent the relapse of illness among psychiatric patients.
Expressed emotion, Psychiatric patients, Staff nurses
