Effect of Critical Thinking Educational Program on Nurses Working in Psychiatric and Mental Health Hospital

Sobhy Hassaneen, Shireen; Ramadan AbdEl-fattah, Sorayia; Mahmoud Zaki, Mawaheb; Elsayed Mohammed, Rehab

doi:10.21608/jnsbu.2022.248208

Effect of Critical Thinking Educational Program on Nurses Working in Psychiatric and Mental Health Hospital

Document Type : Scientific peer reviewed journal

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¹ Instructor of Nursing Department Technical Health institute –Imbaba, Egypt

² Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, 6 October University, Egypt

³ Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Benha University, Egypt

10.21608/jnsbu.2022.248208

Abstract

Background Critical thinking is the art of thinking it refers to thinking clearer, precise,
accurate, relevant, consistent, and faire. It is the art of constructive criticism; the art of identifying
and removing bias, prejudice, and one sidedness of thought; the art of self –directed, in depth,
rational learning, and thinking. Aim of study: Was to evaluate the effect of critical thinking
educational program on nurses working in psychiatric and mental health hospitals. Design: A quasiexperimental design on group pre\post-test. Setting: This study was conducted at Psychiatric and
Mental Health Hospital in Benha City, Qalubia Governorate. Subjects: A purposive sample of 50
nurses would be obtained from nurses working in psychiatric and mental health hospitals at Benha
city. Tools of data collection: The data was collected using the following tool. A structured
interview questionnaire and consist of two parts. Part 1: Socio-demographic data. Part II:
California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory questionnaire (CCTDI). Results: There were
highly statistically significant differences found between the studied nurses' total critical thinking
and their socio-demographic characteristics between pre and post program implementation. Also
there were highly statistically significant positive correlations found between all the critical thinking
subscales pre and post program implementation Conclusion: Most of psychiatric mental health
nurses have positive disposition toward critical thinking post program implementation
Recommendations: The program developed in this study could be utilized by nursing educators in
psychiatric hospitals as a framework in planning function and in evaluating the clinical performance
of psychiatric nurses.

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