Nurses' and Mental Health Technicians' Attitudes and Social Acceptance of People with Mental Illness.

Nurses' and Mental Health Technicians' Attitudes and Social Acceptance of People with Mental Illness. Issues Ment Health Nurs. 2020 Aug 21;:1-11 Authors: Jacq K, Norful AA, Larson E Abstract Over 43 million Americans are diagnosed with a mental illness. Various factors, including health professionals' attitudes, prevent patients from seeking care. Previous evidence fails to identify nursing staff attitudes toward patients with mental illness. This cross-sectional study investigated attitudes toward mental illness of 146 registered nurses and mental health technicians in a psychiatric hospital. The study was guided by the Modified Labeling Theory. Respondents expressed stereotyping beliefs that people with mental illness would be devaluated and discriminated, and endorsed stigmatizing attitudes expressing stronger desire for social distance from a person with schizophrenia than depression or diabetes. Implications for future research, nursing education and practice are discussed. PMID: 32822233 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Issues in Mental Health Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Issues Ment Health Nurs Source Type: research