Effectiveness of a Structured Teaching Programme on Assertive Training for Anger Management

Abstract

Nursing is developmental stage between college study and professional education. During nursing education students encounter various professional work leads to emotional, social and medical issues. Therefore, students feel functional anger characterize by self-inferiority, self-obsession, lack of concentration, undesirable physiological reactions and lower educational performance. Researcher has found various technique to reduce anger e.g. assertive technique, stress management technique etc. out of all technique researcher planned to evaluate effectiveness of structured teaching program on knowledge regarding assertive training for anger management among nursing students. Researcher has used evaluative approach with pre-experimental one group pretest and post-test design. Study was conducted on 50, 2nd year B.Sc. nursing students by using simple random sampling technique. Result: study shows 40% of nursing students having moderate level of anger. In post-test score 62% students gained knowledge up to considerable level, 38% gained adequate level of knowledge regarding assertive training. Discussion: structured teaching program on assertive technique in anger management was found effective.