Substance abuse is one of the most important social deviations, which is foundation of many social damages and problems at the community level. Every part of the substance abuser's life as social life, family life, work productivity, physical health and personal relationships is affected. Aim: The aim of the present study was to determine the effect of psycho-educational nursing program on social adjustment and self-esteem among substance abusers. Design: A quasiexperimental design (pre and posttest) was used to achieve the aim of the study. Setting: This study was conducted at the outpatient clinics for addiction at the Psychiatric Mental Health Hospital in Benha City, Qalubia Governorate, which is affiliated to General Secretariat of Mental Health in Egypt. Subject: A convenience sample of 40 substance abusers was included from the above setting for conduction of this study. Tools: Three tools were used for data collection. Tool 1-structured interview questionnaire was used to collect data about socio demographic and clinical characteristics of the studied sample. Tool 2-Social Adjustment scale (SAS) to assess social adjustment of different life domains among the studied sample. Tool 3-Self-esteem scale (SES) was used to assess self-esteem among the studied sample. Results: There was a highly statistically significant improvement in total score of social adjustment and total score of self-esteem between pre and post implementation of the program. Conclusion: The study demonstrated that psychoeducational nursing program had a positive effect on enhancement of social adjustment and selfesteem among substance abusers. Recommendations: A psycho educational program should be given for all substance abusers based on a treatment protocol during their hospitalization to enhance their self-esteem and social adjustment.
Psychiatric nurses have an important and active role to play in insuring safety for patients undergoing ECT, (Electric-convulsive treatment) and receive accurate information about the treatment. The role of psychiatric nurses in monitoring and preventing complications of ECT is very important, since they provide quality patient care which has become an important factor in success of such management method. This study aimed at assessing the role of nurses caring for the psychiatric patients who receive electro-convulsive therapy. This study followed a descriptive design. The study was carried out at "Psychiatric Department in Tanta University Hospital" and "Psychiatric and Mental Health Hospital" in Tanta. The subjects of the study encompassed all nurses working in the previous settings, (n = 50 nurses). Two tools were used to collect the necessary data: the first was the nurses' knowledge questionnaire, developed by the researchers and divided into two parts: general characteristics of nurses and nurses' Knowledge about ECT. The second was an Observation check list to identify quality of clinical care of patients receiving ECT. The main results revealed that the majority of the study subjects have acceptable level of knowledge about different aspects of ECT but their observed performance was below the expected standardized level. Such level needs to be upgraded using multiple approaches since it proved to be insensitive to years of experiences.
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