Open AccessIndian nursing students' attitudes toward mental illness and persons with mental illness
Author(s) -
Vanteemar S. Sreeraj,
Seema Parija,
N. A. Uvais,
Sandhyarani Mohanty,
Sudhir Kumar
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
industrial psychiatry journal/industrial psychiatry journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0976-2795
pISSN - 0972-6748
DOI - 10.4103/ipj.ipj_25_16
Subject(s) - mental illness , psychiatry , schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , stereotype (uml) , psychology , clinical psychology , depression (economics) , pessimism , medicine , mental health , social psychology , philosophy , epistemology , economics , macroeconomics
Nursing fraternity play a pivotal role in psychiatric services. Negative attitudes toward mental illness have been consistently reported in nursing students. Psychiatric conditions and persons suffering from them may elicit different kinds of attitudinal responses.