Background: Patients aggression acts are a part of the average working day for psychiatric nurses.
Identifying the risks in practice & adapt knowledge are the first steps in developing safe work
practices and enhance positive attitude toward patient aggression. Aim: this study aimed to evaluate
the effect of psycho-educational program for psychiatric nurses to protect themselves and others
from the incidence of acute psychiatric inpatients aggression. Research design: A quasiexperimental
design two groups control and study groups was utilized in this study. Setting: the
study was conducted at the Psychiatric Mental Health Hospital in Banha City. Sample: A purposive
sample of nurses was constituted the study subjects, which divided into two groups study and
control group (pre/post/ test) nurses for each group. Five tools were used for data collection,
Tool ( ): A structured interviewing questionnaire consisting of two parts: to assess Sociodemographic
data for nurses. Tool ( ): Attitudes Towards Aggression Scale. Tool ( ): Knowledge
Questionnaire about aggression. Tool ( ): Skills Questionnaire about dealing with patient
aggression. Tool ( ): The Perception of Prevalence of Aggression Scale. The Results: of this study
revealed that the majority of study sample had positive attitude, adequate knowledge, competent
skills and highly level of perception of aggression post program compared with pre educational
program. Conclusion: There is positive significant correlation between skills, attitude and
knowledge of study group at post the educational program. Recommendation: Aggressionmanagement
training programs should be given to all psychiatric nurses to enhance their
confidence, knowledge and skill on management of patients aggression.