title: [Nurses opinion on the necessity of educating psychiatric patients and their families].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To gather information on the need for educating psychiatric patients and their families by the nursing staff.
  
  
  METHODS
  An anonymous questionnaire was especially constructed for this study. 628 nurses who worked in different health institutions (except for psychiatric departments) were asked to answer the questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Getting the patient ready for functioning in the normal world and showing him ways to cope with the illness were considered as the most important educational themes. It is disturbing to note that 14.01% of the responders did not answer this question at all. According to the nurses, the families should be educated well on how they should deal with their ill member. Most of those questioned declared a readiness to educate the ill, but only 31.8% of them felt only minimally prepared for the task. The best form of learning to be an educator were (according to 79.7% responders) training seminars in the preferable form of talks, lectures or lessons. The medical doctor should be the one who would help in the educational role.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The majority of the nurses believe that they are not prepared well enough for this educational function. Only 4.5% of those studied did not show any need for educating patients and their families. Training seminars for nurses should be organized, so that the nurses feel competent to educate patients and their families. Interdisciplinary teams dealing with the issue of educating patients and their families should be formed.
authors.affiliation: Zakładu Pielegniarstwa Ogólnego AM w Białymstoku.
authors.forename: Elzbieta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Krajewska-Kułak
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Klapa
authors.forename: Jolanta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lewko
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Wrońska
authors.forename: Cecylia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lukaszuk
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jankowiak
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bartoszewicz
authors.forename: Hanna
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rolka
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ostapowicz-van Dammae
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Leszczyńska
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Krajewska
authors.forename: Matylda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sierakowska
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Szyszko-Perłowska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008875:Middle Aged; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000193:education / Q000592:standards; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011044:Poland; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires