2nd PROBLEM STATEMENT:

A study to assess the effectiveness of a planned teaching programme

on knowledge regarding Electro Convulsive Therapy among the 3rd
year Basic B.Sc. Nursing students of selected nursing college,
Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

NEED FOR THE STUDY:

Electro convulsive therapy (ECT) was first described by Cerletti

and Bini in 1938 as a treatment for schizophrenia. Further experience
with ECT showed that it is much more effective as a treatment for
affective disturbances. Electro convulsive therapy is a treatment in
which a grand mal seizure is artificially induced in an anesthetized
patient by passing on electrical current through electrodes applied to
the patient head.

Electro convulsive therapy has been reported to result in a

prompt improvement in symptoms of depression in the majority of
patients treated. The consortium for research in ECT (CORE) reported
a 75% remission rate among 217 patients who completed a short
course of ECT during an acute episode of depression, with 65%
patients having remission by the fourth week of therapy. Systematic
review of six, trails involving 256 patients by the UK, ECT Review
Group, reported in 2003, showed that the effect size for ECT was 0.91
(significantly more effective than sham ECT) and a review of 18 trails
involving 1144 patients showed that the effect size for ECT was 0.80
(more effective than Medication Therapy).
 Today’s nursing students are tomorrow’s nurses who will be
closely working and taking care of the patients. The nature of nursing
profession requires nurses to spend more hours with the patients than
all other health care professionals and considering the valuable and
essential nursing interventions provided to the patients undergoing
ECT prior, during and after the treatment session; therefore, nurses’
knowledge and attitudes towards ECT will impact their patients’
knowledge and attitudes towards ECT. Since third year BSC nursing
students have adequate knowledge or not regarding ECT. So the
investigator felt the need to conduct this study to assess the
knowledge regarding ECT among 3rd Year B.sc nursing students in
selected nursing college.

OBJECTIVES:

The objectives of the study are

 To assess the existing knowledge of III year B.Sc. (N) students
regarding Electro Convulsive Therapy.
 To prepare and intervene planned teaching programme on
Electro Convulsive Therapy.
 To evaluate effectiveness of planned teaching programme.
 To find out the relationship between pre-test and post test
scores knowledge of III year B.Sc. (N) students regarding ECT
with selected variables.