Effectiveness of an educational program on nurses’ knowledge about factors contributing to suicide

Abstract

Background: Suicide is linked to unmet needs, hopelessness and helplessness, an ambiguous conflict between survival and excruciating stress, a shrinking of seen options, and a wish for escape, the suicidal person's distress signal. Material and Method:A convenience sample was recruited from the aforementioned hospitals. Based on an effect size of 0.25, an alpha error probability of 0.05, a power of 0.80, number of groups = 2, and 3 measurements, the total sample size would be 72 who work in the previous mentioned setting were selected randomly for this study. The final sample size would be 72; 36 for the study group and 36 for the control group.A quasi-experimental design with study and control groups was used in this study, pretest-posttest research design was used in this study. The study was carried out in Al-Rashad Psychiatric Teaching Hospital and Ibn Rushd Psychiatric Teaching Hospital in Baghdad City. Data were analyzed using the statistical package for social science (SPSS) for windows, version 26.