title: Acceptance vs. rejection: nursing students' attitudes about mental illness.
abstract: The influence of a psychiatric nursing course on BSN students' attitudes toward mental illness was the subject of quasi-experimental research. Attitude theory was the conceptual framework for the study. The Opinion about Mental Illness (OMI) questionnaire was given to a group of nursing students before and after an eight-week course. Half of the students took the course, the other half served as a comparison group. Nursing students taking the course changed more than the control group on authoritarianism and interpersonal etiology but expressed higher stereotypical attitudes.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Keane
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000592:standards*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing*; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing / Q000193:education*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires