title: Psychiatric patients' perspective: nursing uniforms.
abstract: This paper studied and determined the importance of the design and color of selected uniforms of psychiatric nurses and evaluate their effects and implications for patients. In this descriptive study, a questionnaire developed by the researchers and a nursing uniforms catalog were used during the data collection stage of the research. There were 40.9% of the participants who told that the design and color of a nursing uniform is important and 31.5% of the participants selected white uniform color from the catalog for psychiatric nurses and 33.9% of the patients expressed that they find white nursing uniforms comforting.
authors.affiliation: Istanbul University, Florence Nightingale Nursing Faculty, Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: leylak73@istanbul.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Leyla
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Küçük
authors.affiliation: Istanbul University, Florence Nightingale Nursing Faculty, Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: tuba-comez@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Tuba
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Çömez
authors.affiliation: İstanbul Üniversity, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Psychıatrıc Mental Health Service, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: selmasenlikci@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Selma
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaçar
authors.affiliation: İstanbul Üniversity, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Psychıatrıc Mental Health Service, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: heval_5_@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Fatma
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sümeli
authors.affiliation: İstanbul Üniversity, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, Psychıatrıc Mental Health Service, Istanbul, Turkey. Electronic address: ozgultaskiran@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Özgül
authors.initials: Ö
authors.lastname: Taşkıran
mesh_terms: D003020:Clothing / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012938:Social Perception; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires