Comparative Study on the Cognition and Attitudes toward the Mental Illness Among Nursing College Students

Noh, Choon Hee

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Journal of Korean Academy of psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 2000;9(2):145-155.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12934/jkpmhn.2000.9.2.145 Published online June 30, 2000.

Comparative Study on the Cognition and Attitudes toward the Mental Illness Among Nursing College Students

Choon Hee Noh

Dept, of Nursing. Hallym University

정신간호실습교육 전, 후 간호대학생의 정신질환에 대한 인식 및 태도 비교

노춘희

한림대학교 간호학과 교수

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify the change of nursing college students 7 attitudes toward mental illness in a psychiatric clinical nursing course. Using a CAMI (communi ty attitude toward mental illness)questionnaire, data was collected over 4 months period from 66 nursing students before and after the psychiatric clinical nursing course. The psychiatric clinical nursing course did make a difference to students z attitudes of mental illness. The two concepts of four concepts in the scale revealed significant positive changesless authoritarian and less social restrictiveness. The students didn't think the mentally ill as the control need to be and as they have to be isolated for being dangerous. The change of authoritarian and social restrictiveness is expected to take a major role in developing community mental health services. But there was no meaningful change in benevolence and community mental health ideology. According to nursing literature on nurses' attitudes revealed less benevolent than low educated non professional group, we have to consider this result in future psychiatric mental health clinical education. The reason community mental health ideology had no change was to have a limitation which clinical course focused on mainly the hospitalized mental health nursing. In conclusion, these results have implications for developing further nursing curriculum and practice education. Nursing educators need to emphasize the internalization of nursing behavior in clinical setting and the change of attitude toward mental illness which is essential to community mental health nursing and policy decision making.

Key Words: Recognition on mental illness; Attitudes toward mental illness

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