ECT Knowledge/Attitudes: New Survey of Psychiatric Nurses
Out on PubMed, from authors in Texas, is this article:
Current knowledge and attitudes of psychiatric nurses toward electroconvulsive therapy.
Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2021 Dec 28. doi: 10.1111/ppc.13016. Online ahead of print.PMID: 34964509
The abstract is copied below:
Purpose: This study assessed the current knowledge and attitudes of psychiatric nurses toward electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
Design and methods: A quantitative, nonexperimental study was conducted at a large psychiatric hospital in the United States. The Questionnaire on Attitudes and Knowledge (QuAKE) Scale was used to conduct the assessment among a convenient sample of 158 psychiatric nurses.
Findings: Participants' responses to questions that elicited knowledge of ECT ranged from 45% to 99% and positive attitudes ranged from 21% to 96%, revealing increased levels when compared with the low to average knowledge and positive attitudes noted in previous studies.
Practice implications: Targeted ECT education is needed among psychiatric nurses with limited knowledge and negative attitudes toward ECT.
Keywords: QuAKE scale; attitudes; electroconvulsive therapy; knowledge; psychiatric nurses.
The article is here.
Design and methods: A quantitative, nonexperimental study was conducted at a large psychiatric hospital in the United States. The Questionnaire on Attitudes and Knowledge (QuAKE) Scale was used to conduct the assessment among a convenient sample of 158 psychiatric nurses.
Findings: Participants' responses to questions that elicited knowledge of ECT ranged from 45% to 99% and positive attitudes ranged from 21% to 96%, revealing increased levels when compared with the low to average knowledge and positive attitudes noted in previous studies.
Practice implications: Targeted ECT education is needed among psychiatric nurses with limited knowledge and negative attitudes toward ECT.
Keywords: QuAKE scale; attitudes; electroconvulsive therapy; knowledge; psychiatric nurses.
The article is here.
And from the text:
This is a welcome addition to the ECT psychiatric nursing/attitudes literature. No surprises here, but a well-done survey in a cohort of almost 100 psychiatric nurses. Psychiatric nurses are a critical part of the ECT team, as well as vital care givers to ECT patients in and out of the hospital. ISEN is actively trying to increase nurse membership/involvement in the organization.
Kudos to these authors for advancing the cause of ECT education for psychiatric nurses.
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