Year: 1987
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Female nursing students who had completed an instructional and experiential training program were compared on their perception, beliefs and opinions about mental illness with students who had just entered the same program. The results showed that students who had completed their training were better able to perceive the presence and severity of mental illness. Both groups favoured psychosocial etiology and psychosocial forms of treatment. There was no difference in their attitudes towards the mentally ill and both groups shared an overall optimism about prognosis. The implications of the lack of sophisticated knowledge about psychiatric disorders among mental health professionals are discussed.
Authors: Ashok Malla, Terry Shaw
Institutions: Western University, St. Joseph's Hospital, St Joseph's Health Care
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2035733197