Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: May | Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 85-92
Assess the Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programme on Stress and Coping Strategies among Parents with Mentally Ill Child in Selected Psychiatric Hospital, Bangalore
Mrs. Sushma Yadav
Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Prakash College of Nursing, Omega –IV, Greater Noida, Up- 201310.ABSTRACT
Mental illness is maladjustment in living. It produces a disharmony in the person’s ability to meet human needs comfortably or effectively and function within a culture. There are so many types of mental illness in children. Such as speech & language disorder, motor dysfunction, autism, emotional disorder, behavioral disorder, tic disorder, development disorder, bed wetting, pica disorder, sclerotic disorder. Many factors influencing mental illness such as biological factor influence our behavior to a great extent. It may be genetic, constitutional, physical deprivation and disruptive emotional factors, Psycho social factors have attributed the imbalance between id, ego and super ego as cause of mental disorder. Other physiological factors like maternal deprivation, pathogenic family pattern pathogenic interpersonal relationship and severe stress. Social culture factors influencing the development of abnormal behavior are violence, technological and social changes. The research approach adopted for the study was evaluative approach and the research design was Quasi-experimental one group pre-test /post-test design. The sample of the study was conducted in the spandana hospital among parents with mental ill child in Bangalore. The sample size was 100, selected by non-probability purposive sampling. The researcher conducted pretest for the first day by using self administered questionnaire by demographic Performa of parent, the perceived stress rating scale and the coping rating scale and structured teaching programme was administered on the 8th day followed by the post-test. Then collected data were analyzed by the one of descriptive and inferential statistics90.5% belong to nuclear family where as 78.5% female belong to same, but only 9.5% males and 21.5% females belong to joint family. In pretest out of 100 parents none (0 percent) of subjects had adequate knowledge, about 79 (79.0 percent) had inadequate knowledge, and the remaining 21(21.0 percent) of the subjects had moderately adequate knowledge In post test 12 (12.0 percent) of subjects had adequate knowledge, majority of the subjects 80 (80.0percent) had moderately adequate knowledge and 8 (8.0 percent) of subjects had inadequate knowledge. Comparison of mean, SD and mean percentage of the knowledge scores of the pre and post test revealed an increase of 27.8 percent in the total mean percentage of parents in selected psychiatric hospitals.
Key words: structured teaching programme, parents with mental ill child, knowledge level of stress and coping strategies among the parents with mentally ill child.
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