Journal
JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRIC AND MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Volume 18, Issue 10, Pages 895-903Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2011.01744.x
Keywords
attitudes of nurses towards the importance of families; educational and training intervention program for nurses; family systems nursing; psychiatric nurses
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- Landspitali Scientific Fund
- Nurses Association in Iceland
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This study measures the attitudes of the psychiatric nurses, after having received an education and training intervention program (ETI-PROGRAM) in family systems nursing, towards the importance of the families in their care. Nurses' knowledge of the impact that family nursing intervention can have on family members may increase positive attitudes towards families. However, little is known about the impact that education and training intervention can have on nurses' attitudes, towards families in clinical practice. Quasi-experimental design was used to assess the change in nurses' attitudes towards families in psychiatric care after the intervention, which included a one-day seminar on the Calgary family nursing conceptual frameworks and skills training with clinical vignettes of families from psychiatry. The Families Importance in Nursing Care - Nurses' Attitude questionnaire was used to evaluate nurses' attitudes. A total of 81 nurses ( 65%) working in psychiatric care responded to the questionnaire. Nurses with more than 15 years of work experience were significantly more supportive of families in their care compared with less experienced nurses. Out of the 81 nurses, 52 ( 64%) answered the questionnaire again 14 months later. Furthermore, psychiatric nurses saw families significantly less burdensome after having participated in the ETI-PROGRAM.
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