Different attitudes toward psychiatry and psychiatric patients in nursing students: Can personal experiences reduce stigma? - 13/04/16
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Background |
Psychiatric patients often do not receive the same health treatment reserved for patients with no mental disorders. Stigma in mental-health nurses can worsen the patients’ healing time and quality of care.
Objective |
To explore the different attitudes towards mental illness and psychiatry in nursing students (NS) of the first and the final year of university, and the importance of having visited a psychiatric ward and having known a psychiatric patient.
Methods |
Fifty NS completed the following tests:
– Community attitudes towards mental ill (CAMI);
– Attitudes towards psychiatry (ATP-30);
– Empathy quotient (EQ).
Results |
NS of the final year differ significantly from those of the first year in 4 CAMI items, in Authoritarianism subscale (P=0.041), Social Restrictiveness (P=0.029) and Community Mental Health Ideology (P=0.045), indicating a more mature and responsible approach to psychiatric patients, without considering them a threat to be secluded. EQ does not show a significant difference in empathy, not even considering the individual items. Final year NS also have more positive attitudes toward Psychiatry in 3 ATP-30 items and total score (P=0.01). Those who visited a psychiatric ward have more positive attitudes towards mental illness and Psychiatry, in 6 CAMI items and 3 ATP-30 items. Having personally known a psychiatric patient leads to positive attitudes in only a few CAMI items.
Conclusions |
Last-year NS, who have had more direct relationships with patients through practical training, have more empathetic and less stigmatizing attitudes. It is also very useful to attend a psychiatric ward during the nursing training.
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