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KMID : 0377619890540070469
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Korean Jungang Medical Journal
1989 Volume.54 No. 7 p.469 ~ p.479
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A Study on the Nursing Students´ Attitude Toward the Mental Illness
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Abstract
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This study was attempted to investigate attitude toward mental illness of the nursing students. The purpose of this study was to provide basic data for the study of attitude changes toward mental illness after psychiatric nursing education course.
The subjects for this study were 197 freshmen who did not study of psychiatric nursing - in A junior nursing health college.
Data collection was done from Apr. 3 to Apr. 7, 1988.
The study was done by the questionaire form, devised by -Star and modified by Tera shima.
The results are as follows;
1. 67.0% in subjects had a negative attitude toward mentally ill patient (p=0.000).
2. As for neurosis, 44.2% in subjects understood as a mild mental illness (p=0.000).
3. 62.9% in subjects stasted that they would negative consider mental illness as
"shame" if one of their family members were a mental case (p = 0.000).
4. As for treatment and prognosis of the mental illness is concerned, 92.9% in sub
jects thought mental illness as "treatable" (p = 0.000).
5. As for attitude toward a mental hospital, 62.4% in subjects thought better treatment in a home than a mental hospital (p = 0.000).
6. 76.6% in subjects positively understood function of a mental hospital as a doing treatment (p = 0.000).
7. As for attitude toward a open ward in mental hospital, 84.8% in subjects disagreed (p = 0.000), the reasons of disagreement were a scare.
Results of the above, the worker reconized that the nursing students had a negative attitude toward mentally ill patients, mental illness and hospitalization treatment in mental but they had appositive attitude toward treatment and prognosis of the mental illness.
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