Interpersonal Psychotherapy Training as tool for Competency Development among Student Nurses

Abstract

Background: Interpersonal psychotherapy is a useful psychosocial intervention newlinefor mental health nursing practice; however, there is no discussion on of its newlineinclusion in nursing curriculum. newlineObjective: The present study was aimed to assess the effectiveness of IPT newlinetraining on competency of student nurses regarding the administration of IPT. newlineMethods: The one group pre-test post-test study was conducted on 100 student newlinenurses from four nursing colleges. An IPT training module for nurses was newlinedeveloped. One-week training on IPT was given in four groups of 25 students newlineselected through two-stage cluster sampling. Perceived IPT competency, newlineKnowledge regarding IPT and IPT competencies of the participants were assessed newlinebefore and after the IPT training. Descriptive and inferential statistics were newlineemployed for data analysis using SPSS 20 version. newline