Acceptance vs. Rejection: Nursing Students' Attitudes About Mental Illness

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.

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PSYCHIATRY POSTING AMONG NURSING STUDENTS: ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS

European Journal of Health Sciences ◽

10.47672/ejhs.668 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 45-56

Author(s):

A Bakare ◽

L Yakubu ◽

M Yunusa ◽

A Bioku ◽

M Raji ◽

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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.

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

International Psychiatry ◽

10.1192/s1749367600004380 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 43-45 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

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.

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

Journal of Nursing Education and Practice ◽

10.5430/jnep.v10n9p1 ◽

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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A comparison of Nursing Students' Attitudes about Mental Illness According to their Year in College Pschiatric Nursing

The Journal of Nurses Academic Society ◽

10.4040/jnas.1989.19.1.81 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 81 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Min Jung

Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Students Attitudes

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Effects of psychiatric training on nursing students’ attitudes towards people with mental illness in Japan

International Journal of Social Psychiatry ◽

10.1177/0020764010374419 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 57 (6) ◽

pp. 574-579 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Takashi Yamauchi ◽

Tsuneo Semba ◽

Anju Sudo ◽

Nobuko Takahashi ◽

Hirofumi Nakamura ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Illness ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Frequency Analysis ◽

Psychiatric Training ◽

Training Experience ◽

People With Mental Illness ◽

Textual Data ◽

T1 And T2 ◽

Students Attitudes ◽

The Relationship

Background: Nursing students’ attitudes towards people with mental illness can be influenced by training experience. Aim: To examine the relationship between the attitudes of nursing students towards people with mental illness and the psychiatric training imparted to the students by using textual data and conducting frequency analysis. Methods: We identified the words/phrases which were considered to represent the attitudes towards people with mental illness at pre-training (T1) and post-training (T2) stages from reports written by 76 Japanese nursing students, and examined the differences in the frequencies of the words/phrases used at T1 and T2. Results: With regard to the students’ attitudes towards people with mental illness, generally, the frequencies of words/phrases that had somewhat negative to strongly negative nuances were high at T1, whereas those of the words/phrases that had somewhat positive or neutral nuances were high at T2. Also, analysis showed that words/phrases such as ‘scary’ were used more frequently at T1, whereas words/phrases such as ‘not scary’ were used more often at T2. Conclusion: The students’ attitudes may change favourably owing to, at least in part, psychiatric training.

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Mental Health and Empathy: Do Nursing Students Have Better Attitudes to Psychiatric Patients?

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1926 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (S1) ◽

pp. S520-S520

Author(s):

M. Pascucci ◽

F. Capobianco ◽

M. La Montagna ◽

E. Stella ◽

A. Ventriglio ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Nursing Students ◽

General Population ◽

University Students ◽

Psychiatric Patients ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Stigmatizing Attitudes ◽

The Difference ◽

Students Attitudes

BackgroundStigma towards mental illness has a major impact on the quality of life and the health care of psychiatric patients. Several studies have reported that health professionals have more negative attitudes than general population.AimsTo explore empathy and attitudes towards mental illness in nursing students (NS) and non-health university students. Our purpose is to see how NS have more empathic and less stigmatizing attitudes towards psychiatric patients, compared to other university students.MethodsWe tested 96 university students (50 NS and 46 non-health university students), with the following questionnaires anonymously filled out:– Community attitudes towards mental ill (CAMI), to evaluate the different students’ attitudes towards mental illness;– Empathy quotient (EQ), to assess empathy.ResultsNS differs from the other group in 5 items of CAMI (P < 0.05 in 3 items and P < 0.01 in 2 items), and Authoritarianism subscale (P = 0.023). This shows that NS have a greater general awareness and less stigmatizing attitudes about the need to hospitalize the mentally ill, the difference between psychiatric patients and general population, the wrong need of segregation and the real causes of mental illness. There is also a significant difference in EQ (items 6, 21, 25, 44, 59): future nurses seem to have a slightly higher empathy, even though the EQ total score does not differ in the two groups.ConclusionsThese results suggest that there is a difference with respect to the attitudes towards psychiatric patients in NS and students who do not follow health-care courses: NS have more empathetic and less stigmatizing attitudes.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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