Effects of two different psychiatric nursing courses on nursing students' attitudes towards mental illness, perceptions of psychiatric nursing, and career choices

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (6) ◽  
pp. 452-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zekiye Çetinkaya Duman ◽  
Neslihan Partlak Günüşen ◽  
Figen Şengün İnan ◽  
Sevecen Çelik Ince ◽  
Ayşe Sari
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Career Choices ◽  
Illness Perceptions ◽  
Psychiatric Nursing ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Nursing Courses

Correlates of Change in Attitudes toward Mental Illness among Vocational Nursing Students

1981 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo A. Napoletano
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Attitude Change ◽  
Student Nurses ◽  
Cognitive Components ◽  
Psychology Courses ◽  
Vocational Nursing Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Mental Illness ◽  
Changing Attitudes

Those 16 students who had completed the two psychology courses (a) tended to complete the practicum and (b) reported being more influenced by experiential rather than cognitive components of the practicum. In view of the previously reported findings of favorable attitude change following a psychiatric practicum for the students who had completed the two psychology courses, over-all results presented in both reports (a) confirm previous studies which suggest the effectiveness of a psychiatric practicum in changing nursing students' attitudes toward mental illness and (b) empirically support Rabkin's 1977 statement that academic instruction seems maximally effective in combination with factors such as personal experience with mental patients, etc. (as reported by the student nurses) in changing attitudes toward mental illness.

scholarly journals PSYCHIATRY POSTING AMONG NURSING STUDENTS: ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
A Bakare ◽  
L Yakubu ◽  
M Yunusa ◽  
A Bioku ◽  
M Raji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Self Disclosure ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Mental Illness

Background: Attitude towards mental illness influence the nursing students’ choice to take up training and placement in psychiatry as a specialty. The aim of the study was to examine nursing students' attitudes towards mental illness in terms of aetiology, social relations with patients and self-disclosure regarding mental illness. Methods: This was a descriptive quasi-experimental study conducted among all the sixty nursing students attending a 6-week psychiatry posting at Federal Neuropsychiatry Hospital Kware, Sokoto State and Psychiatry unit of General Hospital Katsina, Northwest Nigeria in July 2018. Attitudes toward Mental Illness (ATMI), a self-administered questionnaire was given to the participants before and after six-week posting in psychiatry. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 23.  Results: After 6 weeks posting in psychiatry there was improvement in the participants’ positive attitude towards social relation in person with mental illness, willingness to self-disclosure regarding mental illness and etiology of mental illness compare to before the commencement of psychiatry posting. Majority (81%) reported that movies have negative influence on their attitude toward mental illness. Conclusion: The 6-week psychiatry posting has positive effects on nursing students' attitudes towards mental illness. Movies contribute negatively towards majority of the participants’ attitude to mental illness. Use of psychodrama is being suggested to educate people on the etiology and treatment of mental illness. This study provides evidence-based recommendation for mandatory psychiatry posting among other health workers under training and use of psychodrama to educate the public on mental illness.

scholarly journals Medical and nursing students' attitudes to people with mental illness in Nigeria: a tale of two teaching hospitals

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theddeus Iheanacho ◽  
Elina Stefanovics ◽  
Victor Makanjuola ◽  
Carla Marienfeld ◽  
Robert Rosenheck
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Psychiatric Education ◽  
People With Mental Illness ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
External Causes ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

This study compared beliefs about and attitudes to mental illness among medical and nursing students at two teaching hospitals in Nigeria with very different levels of psychiatric instructional capacity. Factor analysis of responses to a 43-item self-report questionnaire identified three domains: social acceptance of people with mental illness; belief in non-superstitious causation of mental illness; and stress, trauma and poverty as external causes of mental illness, with entitlement to employment rights. Students at the hospital with a larger, functioning psychiatry department had significantly higher scores on all three factors. Culturally enshrined beliefs and attitudes about mental illness are not uncommon among medical trainees. The availability of psychiatric education and services may have a positive effect on beliefs and attitudes.

scholarly journals Assessment of nursing students’ attitudes and stigma towards mental illness: A cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mohamamd Shammari ◽  
Dania S. Waggas ◽  
Abd Al-Hadi Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Close Relative ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Stereotyped Attitudes ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Attitudes Toward Mental Illness

This study aimed to assess nursing students’ attitudes toward mental illness in Saudi Arabia. The research design was cross sectional survey. A convenience sample of 315 nursing students. The attitudes towards patients with mental illness questionnaire (AMI) was employed. The results of analysis found that nursing students had favorable attitudes (social relationships) toward people affected by mental illness. Their AMI1 score was slightly higher than the neutral score 20.82. In addition, the findings suggested that students showed slightly affirmative attitudes of tendency to inform others in case oneself or a close relative being mentally ill. 10.50 was the score of AMI2. Nursing students had favorable attitudes towards mental illness despite having negative stereotyped attitudes toward mental illness.

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