De-Escalation Techniques for Managing Violence of Mentally Ill

Abstract

The present study was aimed to assess the effectiveness of de-escalation techniques for mental health careproviders in managing violence of mentally ill. The objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge andskill of mental health care providers in managing violence of mentally ill, identify the relationship betweenknowledge and skill in managing violence of mentally ill, determine the effectiveness of de-escalationtechniques for mental health care providers on knowledge and skill in managing violence of mentally illand to identify the association of knowledge and skill in managing violence with selected demographicvariables. The study was done by quantitative approach with pre-experimental one group pretest posttestdesign on 30 mental health care providers. Sample selected by convenience sampling technique. Duringpretest, data collected using demographic proforma, knowledge questionnaire and skill assessment checklist.then administered intervention de-escalation techniques and posttest conducted by re administering the sametool after teaching the de-escalation techniques. Collected data tabulated and analyzed. Result revealedthat, in pretest knowledge assessment 70% of sample scored average and 30% scored as poor. In posttestknowledge score 90% sample scored good and 310% scored as average. In pretest skill assessment 53%of sample scored average and 47% scored as poor. In posttest skill score 90% of sample scored good and30% had average score. For knowledge and skill mean difference were 7.6 and 9.47 respectively with ‘t’value for knowledge and skill 21.06 and 21.32 respectively and ‘p’ value <0.001 which is less than 0.05.Positive correlation identified between knowledge and skill with ‘r’ value 0.633, also there was a significantassociation between age and skill of mental health care providers. Hence study conclude that de-escalationtechniques are effective for mental health care providers in managing violence of mentally ill.