Knowledge and Attitude Towards Psychiatry among Nursing Staffs in Tertiary Health Care Hospital

Knowledge and Attitude Towards Psychiatry among Nursing Staffs

Abstract

Background: A shortage of experts in psychiatry, each in terms of psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses is obvious worldwide. The attitude of health care specialists has been defined as being, even more, negative than that of the general public, which worsens the diagnosis for patients with a mental illness. This study hence aimed to discover attitudes towards psychiatry amongst Nurses and observe factors associated with those attitudes. The aim is to study the attitude towards psychiatry among nurses in tertiary health care centers. Subjects and Methods: The present cross-sectional study used an online web survey tool to evaluate attitudes toward psychiatry among 400 nursing staff with the usage of the Attitudes toward Psychiatry (ATP-30) scale. Descriptive statistics and more than one linear regressions had been used to observe associated factors (sociodemographic and education). Results: Totally 400 nursing staff took part in the research study. Among them the mean age of the participants was 33 years. And the prevalence of negative attitudes was 66.5%. Various socio demographic parameters revealed that the majority of the participants were undergraduate females, who are never married and lack adjustment disorder. And they show a negative attitude towards psychiatry. Conclusion: The majority of staff on this study advocated unfavourable attitudes towards patients withinside the psychiatric setting. The present psychiatry curriculum may be advanced to nurture the improvement of empathetic attitudes towards people with mental illness. Despite the small size of the sample, the nurses' negative attitude towards the mentally-ill patients gives beneficial baseline records for in addition large-scale research and underscores the want for psychoeducation of various health care professionals, inclusive of nurses.