Efficacy of a need assessment based workshop of psychiatric disorders on knowledge and attitudes of nursing staffs

Aim and Continuous education of health provider staffs is over mentioned. This study designed to evaluate the efficacy of a need assessment based educational workshop for a group of nurses in psychiatric wards of educational hospitals in Isfahan regarding to psychiatric disorders.Methods and Materials: This is an interventional study and our samples included all nurses were working in psychiatric wards of Noor & Farabi hospitals in Isfahan. The educational intervention performed in a workshop format including lecture presenting, group work and discussion in both hospitals. Knowledge & attitudes of samples evaluated before, immediate and one month after the workshop using a researcher designed questionnaire. Collected data analysed with Bonferroni, Repeated measure & ANOVA tests using SPSS-19. The mean score of the knowledge's of the samples raised from the base of 63.3± 11.6 to 82.7±12.9 & 73.3± 13.3 immediate and one month after the workshop respectively (p ≤0.001). The mean score of attitude raised meaningfully from the 60.1±8.1 of the base to 63.1±10.7 after intervention and 64.9±11.6 one month later. Educational workshop regarding the psychiatric disorders can cause positive effect on knowledge and attitude of nursing staffs to these disorders and may promote the practice with the psychiatric patients.