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Nursing Students' Attitudes toward Psychiatric Nursing and Psychiatric Patients
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Background: Psychiatric nursing and working with those with psychiatric disorders representunpopular career preference in relation to other areas of nursing. Aim: The aim of this studywas to identify nursing students' attitudes toward psychiatric nursing and psychiatric patients.Research design: A descriptive design was utilized in this study. Setting: This study wasconducted at the Faculty of Nursing in El-Minia and Assiut Universities. Sample: Totalsample was 369 nursing students the sample included all 1st grade students who did not studypsychiatric nursing course in both Universities and all 4th grade from El-Minia University andall 2nd grade from Assiut University who studied psychiatric nursing course recently. Tools:Three tools were utilized to measure the variables of the study: Personal data questionnaire,self report scale for measure nursing students' attitudes toward mental health nursing andattitude scale for mental illness. A semi structured interview was used t...
PSYCHIATRY POSTING AMONG NURSING STUDENTS: ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS
RESEARCH ARTICLE, 2021
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 selfdisclosure 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.
Impact of a Nursing in Psychiatry Course on Students' Attitudes Toward Mental Health Disorders
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Negative attitudes toward patients with mental illnesses are not uncommon among health professionals, and lead to poorer quality and outcomes of care. Because attitudes are formed early in life, the current study aimed to investigate if teaching psychiatry in secondary school nursing students (i.e., adolescents) changes attitudes toward three prevalent psychiatric disorders: schizophrenia, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and depression. A pilot quasi-experimental study was conducted with 51 fourth-year students in secondary nursing school who completed a questionnaire regarding attitudes toward these disorders on the fi rst and last day of their Nursing in Psychiatry course. Results show that the stigma attached to all three disorders was signifi cantly reduced after students completed the course. Students attached greater stigma to schizophrenia than PTSD, and to PTSD than depression, before and after the course. The study indicates that education in psychiatry helps reduce negative attitudes toward
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Background: Psychiatry is an important branch of medicine and has been an integral part of the academic curriculum in Baghdad College of Medicine since its establishment. Medical students have a different attitude towards it as a medical profession like other specialties of medicine and as future medical career. Objectives: This study aims to explore the attitudes of medical students towards psychiatry in general and as a future career after their course of clerkship in the Department of Psychiatry in Baghdad Teaching Hospital. Patients and Methods: During the year 2016, 158 male and female students of fifth and sixth years participated in a brief five-question survey derived from the international questionnaire-Attitude towards Mental Illness (AMI) assessing their perspectives toward importance of psychiatry as medical discipline to study and as their future career choice. Results: The female to male ratio was 2:1. Of all the respondents, 86.6% indicated the clinical significance of psychiatry as a profession. Only 23% said that they would choose psychiatry as their future career. Nearly half of them attributed improvement of their attitudes to the positive effect of tutoring. Generally, there were no prominent gender differences in the responses Conclusion: The vast majority of the students had a positive attitude towards psychiatry in general yet it wasn't preferred as their future career. It is thought that education and training of psychiatry may ameliorate the negative attitude towards the clinical importance but it may not affect their career aspiration.
Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2019
Background: Attitude of treating professionals plays an important role in the treatment of mental illnesses. Nursing professionals are an important part of the mental health care team. As a part of their nursing coursework, nursing students are posted in a mental health setting. It is important to assess the impact of such postings on their attitudes. Materials and Methods: A total of 235 undergraduate nursing students posted in a mental healthcare setting for one month participated in the study. Their attitude towards mental illness and psychiatry was assessed before and after the posting, using Personal data sheet, Attitude Scale of Mental Illness (ASMI), and Attitude towards Psychiatry Scale (ATP). Results: At pre-assessment, the nursing students had a negative attitude on all dimensions of ASMI except benevolence, and positive attitude on all the six domains of ATP. At post-assessment, attitude improved significantly on pessimistic prediction dimension of ASMI, and they were able to maintain their positive attitude on ATP. Conclusions: One-month posting had a weak positive impact on attitude towards mental illness and no detrimental impact on attitude towards psychiatry. There is a need for better efforts to increase the impact of training on attitude towards mental illness.
Annals of Tropical Medicine & Public Health, 2021
BACKGROUND: Stigma and negative perceptions regarding psychiatric illness, psychiatric patients and the speciality as a whole is a common phenomenon across the globe. This is more prevalent in countries like India, with deeply ingrained cultural beliefs about psychiatric illness. Medical students are not an exception for this phenomenon. Psychiatry training plays a huge role in changing these negative perceptions. But the studies on the subject are scarce from India. AIM: This study is aimed at analysing medical students' perceptions of psychiatry before and after their clinical posting and theory lecture classes. METHODS: The current study was an analytical cross sectional study, involving two study groups (Interns and UG medical students). Attitude towards psychiatry-30 (ATP-30) scale, a valid reliable scale was used to measure the attitude of medical students towards psychiatry in different domains such as perception of psychiatry as a discipline, perception about psychiatric treatments, perception of psychiatrists as role models, perception of psychiatry as a career. RESULTS: As per the perceptions regarding psychiatry are concerned, no clear pattern could be identified across the two study groups. About 80% of the interns had felt that psychiatric patients are as human as other people, whereas this proportion was about 72.5% in UG students. Higher proportion of interns (about 60%) felt that it is interesting to work with psychiatric patients than other patients, as compared to 47% in UG students. Higher proportion of interns has expressed strong agreement with positive aspects of psychiatric training. The proportion of interns expressing positive agreement with psychiatric treatment as valuable, most important part of their medical curriculum was about 43.3% and 56.7%, whereas this proportion was only 22.5% and 40% among UG students. Higher proportion of UG students was willing to be psychiatrist (about 30%) than Interns (about 10%). CONCLUSION: Psychiatry training had enhanced the positive perception about psychiatry
Who wants to be a psychiatric nurse? Novice student nurses' interest in psychiatric nursing
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 1999
Available research findings suggest that nursing students do not regard psychiatric nursing as a desirable future career option. This paper addresses the results of a research project conducted by the author. This research addresses the relative popularity of psychiatric nursing in comparison to other nursing specialties, within Victoria, Australia. The research was conducted by use of a questionnaire in which commencing undergraduate nursing students were asked to rank nine areas of nursing specialty in order of preference and provide some explanation for their choices. The results indicate that psychiatric nursing emerges as the second least popular career choice for student nurses at this stage of their education.
Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 2008
Previous research examining the impact of education on nursing students' attitudes towards mental health nursing as a career has highlighted clinical experience as the primary influencing factor and generally has not considered the impact of theory. The current study compared a cohort of second-year and a cohort of third-year nursing students from the same university. Second-year students had received more theory and clinical experience than their counterparts. Questionnaires were distributed to the total population of students before commencement of, and after completion of clinical placement. This paper examines students' perceived preparedness for and satisfaction with clinical experience, attitudes towards people with mental illness, and attitudes towards mental health nursing as a career option following the completion of differing amounts of theory and clinical experience. The results demonstrate some statistically significant differences with increased amounts of theory and clinical experience in the second-year cohort being positively influential. The findings suggest that an increased component of theoretical and clinical experience in psychiatric/mental health nursing is likely to produce more positive attitudes towards people with mental illness and psychiatric/mental health nursing. However, little difference in perceived preparedness for and satisfaction with clinical experience was noted between the two cohorts.