Evaluation of nurses' attitude and their quality of nursing care for patients attempted suicide Download PDF

Background: Desire to suicide attempt and its increasing growth due to various social, cultural and economic consequences is one of the important problems of today's societies that impose a lot financial burden to health and psychiatric systems. The current research was performed to determine relation of nurses' attitude and their quality of nursing care for patients attempted suicide in selected hospitals of medical university in Tehran, Iran. Methods and materials: This descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 182 nurses working in emergency, ICU, surgery, burning and poisoning wards from selected hospitals of medical university in Tehran city using convenience sampling method. The data were collected using questionnaires of demographic information, attitude towards suicide commitment and quality of nursing care in psychological-social. Data were analyzed using SPSS software v.20, descriptive statistics, independent T-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation test. Results: In this study, 72% of nurses had positive attitude towards patients attempted suicide and 28% had negative attitude. Also, 41.8% of patients had reported that nursing care is favorable in psychological aspects and 57.1% had reported it approximately favorable and 1.1% had reported it unfavorable. There was no statistically significant relationship among nurses' attitude toward patients attempted suicide and quality of nursing in psychological-social aspects (P= 0/39, r= -0/06) and quality in communicational aspect (P= 0/08, r= -0/12). Conclusion: According to results, there was no relationship between nurses' attitude toward patients attempted suicide and quality of nursing care in psychological-social and communicational aspects.