Effectiveness of Self-instructional Module (Sim) on Knowledge Regarding Human Rights of Mentally Ill among 3rd Year B.Sc. Nursing Students

Abstract

The science and practice of providing protective, therapeutic, supporting, physical, and social care to those who are too unwell to fully manage their own behavior is known as psychiatric nursing. The primary health care provider and primary mental health care nurse for patients in mental hospitals and other institutional settings is the psychiatric nurse. A young profession is nursing. The professional nurse exhibits special abilities, engages in critical analysis and methodical research, and applies discretion and judgments in practice. The results showed that 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 analyzed using paired t-test and it was 25.81 which were found highly significant at 0.05 levels. This indicates that the self-instructional module was effective in increasing the knowledge on human rights of mentally ill among 3rd year B.Sc. Nursing students.