TY - JOUR
T1 - Preparing children's nurses for working with children and adolescents who self-harm
T2 - Evaluating the ‘our care through our eyes’ e-learning training package
AU - Singh-Weldon, Jasmine
AU - Tsianakas, Vicki
AU - Murrells, Trevor
AU - Grealish, Annmarie
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank Iain Ryrie, our colleague at King's College London, for providing his guidance and expertise in editing this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Rates of self-harm among children and adolescents have risen significantly over the past decade and clinical guidelines place children's nurses at the heart of their care. This article reports on the evaluation of ‘Our Care Through Our Eyes’, an online self-harm learning programme for children's nurses. A self-selected, convenience sample of registered children's nurses (n = 42) completed scales pre- and postlearning programme that captured their attitudes, beliefs, empathy, anxiety, and confidence. Mean change scores were assessed, and qualitative comments captured postintervention were thematically summarized. There were small improvements in participants' attitudes, empathy and confidence were reported. Anxiety scores increased in a small number of items. Qualitative comments confirmed the value of the online learning programme for improving children's nurses' knowledge and understanding of self-harm among CYP. Our findings demonstrate that children's nurses agree on the importance of mental health training in self harm, and this could be a catalyst for renewal of both pre- and postregistration education including support structures within the National Health Service. This study is the first to explore the feasibility of evaluating ‘Our Care Through Our Eyes’ delivered using e-leaning and could be used to inform further investigations.
AB - Rates of self-harm among children and adolescents have risen significantly over the past decade and clinical guidelines place children's nurses at the heart of their care. This article reports on the evaluation of ‘Our Care Through Our Eyes’, an online self-harm learning programme for children's nurses. A self-selected, convenience sample of registered children's nurses (n = 42) completed scales pre- and postlearning programme that captured their attitudes, beliefs, empathy, anxiety, and confidence. Mean change scores were assessed, and qualitative comments captured postintervention were thematically summarized. There were small improvements in participants' attitudes, empathy and confidence were reported. Anxiety scores increased in a small number of items. Qualitative comments confirmed the value of the online learning programme for improving children's nurses' knowledge and understanding of self-harm among CYP. Our findings demonstrate that children's nurses agree on the importance of mental health training in self harm, and this could be a catalyst for renewal of both pre- and postregistration education including support structures within the National Health Service. This study is the first to explore the feasibility of evaluating ‘Our Care Through Our Eyes’ delivered using e-leaning and could be used to inform further investigations.
KW - adolescent
KW - child
KW - e-learning
KW - nurse education
KW - self-harm
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85134079273&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/inm.13041
DO - 10.1111/inm.13041
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85134079273
SN - 1447-0349
VL - 31
SP - 1427
EP - 1437
JO - International journal of mental health nursing
JF - International journal of mental health nursing
IS - 6
M1 - INM13041
ER -