title: Ego States of nurses working in psychiatric clinics according to transactional analysis theory.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  An effective interpersonal communication is an essential nursing skill required to help provide quality health care and meet the treatment objectives. The aim of this study was to investigate the communication between the psychiatric nurses and the patients in terms of Transactional Analysis Theory ego states.
  
  
  METHODS
  The quantitative and qualitative research methods were used. The descriptive statistics (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) were used in the data analysis and Kendall's Tau-c coefficient was used to assess the agreement among the observers.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the psychiatric nurses, 66.7% (n = 14) had served as a psychiatric nurse for 1-10 years. Among the nurses, 52.4% (n=11) had received training about communication from any institution/organization. The agreement among the opinions of the nurses, the researcher and the charge nurses about the psychiatric nurses' ego states showed that there was a significant relationship between the researcher's opinion of the nurses' ego states and the charge nurses' opinion of the nurses' ego states in terms of Critical Parent, Nurturing Parent, Adult, Adapted Child and Natural Child ego states.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It is suggested that training be offered in regards to raising awareness about ulterior transactions that can affect communication negatively, patient autonomy and therapeutic communication in particular, and patients requiring the use of special communication methods.
authors.affiliation: Melike Yonder Ertem, MSc, PhD Student. Research Assistant, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Dokuz Eylul University Nursing Faculty, Izmir, Turkey.
authors.forename: Melike Yonder
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Ertem
authors.affiliation: Dr. Ayla Kececi, PhD, RN. Associate Professor, Department of Nursing Education, Duzce University School of Health, Duzce, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ayla
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kececi
keywords: Ego States; Nurse-Patient Interaction; Psychiatric Clinic; Psychiatric Nursing; Transactional Analysis