Effect of education on trauma critical care staffs knowledges and practices about application of physical restraint in kerman 2014

Physical restraints are commonly used in different hospital wards especially at ICU to ensure of patient safety and management of patient agitation and perevention of dislodgement of medical equipments connected to patient.
To examine the effectiveness of education on trauma critical care staffs knowledges and practices about application of physical restraint.
This study is a quasiexperimental design that conduct on trauma critical care staffs in kerman at 2014. Staffs were randomly assigned in two control and intervention groups and each group included 35 persons. The questionnaire included demographic data and two scales for examine staff knowledge and practice about physical restraint. These scales was completed by all of the participants. Then an education program conduct for intervention group and after 2 weeks, twice that scales completed by intervention group. Data was analyzed by SPSS 18 and paired t-test, independent t-test , Anova and pyerson correlation.
Results showed a significant improvement in the intervention group in terms of knowledge (p Findings indicated the level of staffs’ knowledge and practice that demonstrated the need to provide an education program on physical restraint use and these programs can significantly improve the staff knowledge and practice.