Effectiveness of Self Instructional Module on Knowledge Regarding Human Rights of Mentally Ill among 3rd Year B.Sc. Nursing Students

Abstract

Knowledge of the legal boundaries governing psychiatric nursing practice is necessary to protect the public, the patient and the nurse. The practice of psychiatric nursing is influenced by law, particularly in its concern for the rights of patients and the quality of care they receive. Despite signing up to various Acts and Conventions on mental health, the violation of their rights are continuing around the globe. This may be due to the lack of knowledge and faulty attitude of community and also some poor beliefs are contributing to this. The finding shows the comparison of overall knowledge score between pre test and post test. In the pre test mean score was 11.18 with SD 2.82 whereas in post test mean score was 23.23 with SD 3.03. Difference in score is 12.05. There is large difference between pre test and post test knowledge score and it is statistically significant. Differences between pre test and post test score was analysed using paired t-test and it was 25.81 which were found highly significant at 0.001level.