Nursing students' attitudes toward mental illness before and after classroom and clinical instruction
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1994
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Department of Nursing
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine if classroom and clinical
instruction in psychiatric nursing was effective in favorably changing nursing
students' attitudes toward mental illness. This study was based on the framework
of attitude theory which stresses that attitudes are learned by one's experiences in
the world and through one's interactions with others. Also stressed in the model is
that a changed attitude can ultimately lead to new behaviors.