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Acceptance vs. Rejection: Nursing Students' Attitudes About Mental Illness
Author(s) -
Keane Mary
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1991.tb01557.x
Subject(s) - authoritarianism , mental illness , interpersonal communication , psychology , nursing , nurse education , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , mental health , social psychology , politics , political science , law , democracy
The influence of a psychiatric nursing course on BSN students' attitudes toward mental illness was the subject of quasi‐experimental research. Attitude theory was the conceptual framework for the study. The Opinion about Mental Illness (OMI) questionnaire was given to a group of nursing students before and after an eight‐week course. Half of the students took the course, the other half served as a comparison group. Nursing students taking the course changed more than the control group on authoritarianism and interpersonal etiology but expressed higher stereotypical attitudes.