TITLE:
Assessment of Factors That Influence Nurses’ Attitudes towards Mental Illness
AUTHORS:
Evangelos C. Fradelos, Olga Velentza, Konstantina Anastopoulou, Euterpi Vasiliadi, Panagiota Argyrou, Dimitra Mitsi, Konstantinos Tsaras, Victoria Alikari, Ioanna V. Papathanasiou, Sofia Zyga
KEYWORDS:
Mental Illness, Stigma, Nurses, Attitudes, Assessment
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.11,
November
12,
2015
ABSTRACT: Introduction:
Mental disorders are the most stigmatized diseases. Despite the progress in
social psychiatry and the adoption of mechanisms that raise awareness in the
public, mentally ill patients are continuing to be victims of discrimination.
Nurses and health care professionals are working together with patients and
their families in order to address issues that are raised by those behaviors.
Propose: The present study aims to investigate the nurses’ attitudes towards
mental disorders and their relation to the following factors: age, gender,
education and working experiences in mental health settings. Material and
Method: A
group of 160 nurses are recruited who work in psychiatric or general hospitals as well as in
community based on rehabilitation facilities. Data are obtained by an anonymous
self-administered questionnaire that is consisted by demographic questions and
the Opinion on Mental Illness Scale (OMI). Descriptive statistics such as
frequencies, means, percentages and standard deviations is being utilized. Inferential
statistics has been used to determine relations between relevant variables. The
level of significance which is accepted is p