title: Effects of psychiatric training on nursing students' attitudes towards people with mental illness in Japan.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nursing students' attitudes towards people with mental illness can be influenced by training experience.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To examine the relationship between the attitudes of nursing students towards people with mental illness and the psychiatric training imparted to the students by using textual data and conducting frequency analysis.
  
  
  METHODS
  We identified the words/phrases which were considered to represent the attitudes towards people with mental illness at pre-training (T1) and post-training (T2) stages from reports written by 76 Japanese nursing students, and examined the differences in the frequencies of the words/phrases used at T1 and T2.
  
  
  RESULTS
  With regard to the students' attitudes towards people with mental illness, generally, the frequencies of words/phrases that had somewhat negative to strongly negative nuances were high at T1, whereas those of the words/phrases that had somewhat positive or neutral nuances were high at T2. Also, analysis showed that words/phrases such as 'scary' were used more frequently at T1, whereas words/phrases such as 'not scary' were used more often at T2.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The students' attitudes may change favourably owing to, at least in part, psychiatric training.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. tyama@ncnp.go.jp
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamauchi
authors.forename: Tsuneo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Semba
authors.forename: Anju
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sudo
authors.forename: Nobuko
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Hirofumi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Kunihiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Koyama
authors.forename: Shoko
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ishigami
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeshima
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D057566:Self Report; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D014041:Tokyo; D055815:Young Adult