• Mental Health Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, P. R. China;
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Objective To compare attitudes of nursing undergraduates to patients with mental illness before and after learning psychiatric nursing course and provide evidence for the improvement of teaching of the course. Methods Stigma scale to patients with mental illness was used as a questionnaire for collecting data, which was conducted on nursing undergraduates taking psychiatric nursing course between March and June 2012. Paired t-test was used to compare the differences between students' attitudes before and after learning the course. Results Significant difference was found for danger factor (P<0.05), while there was no statistically significant difference in the social isolation factor and social ability factor before and after the psychiatric nursing course (P>0.05). Conclusion Psychiatric nursing course has a great influence on students' evaluation of the danger of patients with mental illness which reduces the discrimination against the patients.

Citation: LUOShan-xia, ZHUOYu, WANGXu, SHENWen-wu. Influence of Psychiatric Nursing Course on Attitude of Nursing Undergraduates to Patients with Mental Illness. West China Medical Journal, 2014, 29(8): 1568-1570. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.20140480 Copy

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