Acceptance vs. Rejection: Nursing Students' Attitudes About Mental Illness
- 1 September 1991
- journal article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
- Vol. 27 (3) , 13-18
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6163.1991.tb01557.x
Abstract
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.Keywords
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