Effect of Digital Drugs Educational Program on Nursing Students' Knowledge and Attitudes at Benha University

Abstract

Background: Digital drug abuse has recently been approached as an urging topic endangering Middle Eastern teenager through different media channels. This approach raised a lot of discussion and speculations among health practitioners, especially toxicologists, psychiatrists and community health practitioners. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of digital drugs educational program on nursing students' knowledge and attitude at Benha University. A Quasi-experimental design was used to conduct this study, at Faculty of Nursing Benha University during the period from October 2017 to December 2017 then from March 2018 to May 2018. Subjects: A purposive sample of 313 students selected according to study formula based on the total number of students during the academic year 2017-2018. Tools: Two tools were utilized for data collection. The Tool I- A Self-administrated Questionnaire was developed. Tool II- A Likert scale to assess nursing student’s attitude regarding digital drugs. Results: There were statistically significant differences between the mean students’ knowledge scores and attitude of pre-program and post-program(P<0.001). Also, a highly statistically significant positive association was found among the studied students’ knowledge and attitude pre and post-program. Conclusion: The result showed the effectiveness of an educational program on improving students’ knowledge and attitude regarding the digital drug. Recommendation: There was an urgent need for educational programs for all nursing undergraduate as well as teenagers to prepare them to oversee their awareness around the digital drug.