Does contact with the mentally ill affect nurses; attitudes to mental illness?
- 1 September 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
- Vol. 61 (3) , 277-284
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1988.tb02789.x
Abstract
This study examines the effects of contact on nurses' attitudes towards psychiatric patients. Three groups of nurses with differing degrees of contact answered the Attitude towards Mental Illness (AMI) questionnaire. No differences were found among the three groups. Practical nurses, nurses with less experience and religious nurses held more positive attitudesThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: