Effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding legal aspects of forensic psychiatry among staff nurses at Selected hospital, Coimbatore

Toevaluate the effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on knowledge regarding Legal Aspects of Forensic Psychiatry among staff nurses at selected hospital, Coimbatore.

(i) To assess the level knowledge regarding legal aspects in forensic psychiatry among staff nurses. (ii) To administer structured teaching programme regarding the legal aspects in forensic psychiatry among staff nurses. (iii) To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on level of knowledge regarding legal aspects in forensic psychiatry among staff nurses. (iv) To find out the association between selected demographic variables with the post test knowledge score of staff nurses. Quasi experimental, non –equivalent, one group pretest posttest design was adopted. A simple random sampling technique was used select 50 staff nurses. A Modified Structured Knowledge Question naire was used to assess the knowledge on Legal Aspects of Forensic Psychiatry. The modified conceptual frame work for the present study was based on Wiedenbach's Clinical Nursing Practice-A Helping Art Theory. The study was conducted at selected hospital in Coimbatore among 50 staff nurses and the data collected was analyzed and interpreted based on descriptive and inferential statistics. The pretest mean was 15.22 and post test mean was 20.82 there was significant difference between the level of knowledge among the subjects in pretest and post test after implementation of STP (t=11.61 and p<= 0.05). The study shows that the STP on legal aspects in forensic psychiatry was effective in improving the knowledge of staff nurses.