The Effectiveness of Self-Instructional Module on Knowledge Regarding Management of Aggressive Patient Among Staff Nurses”.

Abstract

“A study to assess the effectiveness of Self Instructional Module on knowledge regarding management of Aggressive patient among staff nurses”. A quantitative research approach was used to assess the effectiveness of Self Instructional Module on knowledge regarding management of Aggressive patient among staff nurses”. Pre- experimental one group pre test post test design was used for the study. The non probability purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample. The sample size was 60. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for analysis. The mean pre test score was 10.08 and the mean post test score was 20.82. The mean difference between pre test and post test knowledge score is 10.74. The t test calculated value was 6.401 and tabulated t test was 2.00 at 0.05 level of significance. post test knowledge score was significantly higher than the mean pre test knowledge scores. The calculated t value v was greater than the tabulated t value. Therefore the null hypothesis H0 was rejected and research hypothesis H1 is accepted.