A Study to Assess the Level of Knowledge Regarding Psychiatric Emergencies i.e., Deliberate Self-harm and Violence and Their Management Among Group D Workers Working in Swami Vivekananda Subharti University, Meerut

Abstract

RESEARCH ABSTRACT BACKGROUND A psychiatric emergency is an acute disturbance of behavior, thought or mood of an individual which if untreated may lead to harm, either to an individual or to others in the environment. Thus, the definition of a psychiatric emergency differs from other medical emergencies in that the danger of harm to the society is also taken into account. Emergencies may be classified as major, where there is a danger to life either of an individual or to others in his environment or minor where there is no threat to life but causes severe incapacitation. STATEMENT OF PROBLEM “A study to assess the level of knowledge regarding psychiatric emergencies i.e., deliberate self-harm and violence and their management among Group D workers working in Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut”. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 1. To assess the level of knowledge regarding psychiatric emergencies i.e. deliberate self-harm and violence and their management among Group D workers. 2. To find out the association between the knowledge of Group D workers with selected demographic variables. RESEARCH HYPOTHESIS H1: There will be no significant difference between the knowledge scores of Group D workers regarding management of psychiatric emergencies i.e., deliberate self-harm and violence. H2: There will be a significant association of knowledge scores of Group D workers regarding psychiatric emergencies i.e. deliberate self-harm and violence and selected demographic variables. MATERIAL AND METHOD The non- experimental descriptive research approach was adopted for this study and the non-probability purposive sampling technique adopted setting was Swami Vivekanand Subharti University, Meerut. A self-structured knowledge checklist was prepared to assess the level of knowledge regarding psychiatric emergencies i.e., deliberate self-harm and violence and their management among Group D workers working in SVSU, Meerut. Data was analyzed by descriptive statistics (Frequency, Mean, Standard Deviation, and Percentage) at inferential statistics Chi-square test wasused to find out the association and selected demographic variables values, the p Value 0.05 was accepted as statistically significant. RESULT Out of (160) majority of samples i.e. (16) 10% of them have good knowledge regarding psychiatric emergencies i.e., deliberate self-harm and violence and their management (121) 75.62% of them were have average knowledge and (23) 14.3% were have poor knowledge. the mean score of level of knowledge regarding psychiatric emergencies i.e., deliberate self-harm and violence and its management is (14.69) and SD (3.73) indicates that Group D workers working in selected university were having average knowledge regarding psychiatric emergencies i.e. deliberate selfharm and violence. This study shows that there is an association of knowledge score of Group D workers regarding psychiatric emergencies i.e. deliberate self-harm and violence with the selected demographic variables i.e. Gender. CONCLUSION The results revealed that the majority of Group D workers had average knowledge regarding psychiatric emergencies i.e., deliberate self-harm and violence and their management among Group D workers working in SVSU.