Psychiatric nurses' attitudes toward aggressive psychotic patients

Aggression by mentally ill patients has been recognized as a significant and increasing problem in psychiatric settings. Inpatient aggressive behaviour represents a serious threat to the safety of staff, and it provokes strong emotional reactions among staff members Nurses' attitudes towards patient aggression may influence their behavior toward patients. This study aims to explore psychiatric nurses' attitudes toward aggressive psychotic patients. The study was conducted at EL-Mamoura Hospital for Psychiatric Medicine in Alexandria. Subjects of the study comprised all staff nurses working at the psychotic inpatients wards. The data of the study were collected using the Attitude toward aggression scale [ATAS], which comprise five subscales namely, offensive. Destructive, intrusive, communicative, and protective, and aggressive incident, The results of this study revealed that there is a negative attitude toward patients aggression. A negative correlation between the age of nurses, their years of experience and offensive, communicative and intrusive attitude, i.e. the younger the age and fewer years of experience associated, with more negative attitude toward aggression, but no statistical significant difference was found. But in contrast, the protective attitude had a positive correlation with age and years of experience, i.e. viewing the aggression may exhibit to defend about personal and emotional space

Role of husbands during pregnancy and puerperium: the expected versus the actual

Pregnancy and child bearing are crucial developmental phases in family life: they are often characterized by ambivalence and conflicting emotions as expectant parents face significant role and lifestyle changes. Everybody responds differently to the diagnosis of pregnancy. Quite often expectant fathers get bent out of shape over what they should be doing during the period of pregnancy, and puerperium. The current study was designed to explore women's expectations of their husbands' role during pregnancy and puerperium, further to compare their expectations with what was actually provided. The study was conducted at El-Shatby hospital in post partum wards, the subjects were hundred post partum women during the first 24 hours alter delivery. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview schedule which was developed by the researchers. Results revealed that almost all studied women expected their husband support during pregnancy and puerperum, and almost all women stated they need understanding and approval from their husband. An active, positive role of the husband: increases the women sense of well being. From this study it's recommended to increase husband involvement in the care and support of their spouse, to prepare the husband to accept paternal responsibilities, and strengthen the marital relationship of the couples