title: Nurses Teaching Prison Officers: A Workshop to Reduce the Stigmatization of Prison Inmates With Mental Illness.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This report describes and evaluates the effectiveness of a nurse-led workshop designed to improve correctional officers' stigmatizing attitude toward inmates with mental illness.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-three prison officers attended a 6-day workshop targeting the cognitive, psychoeducational, and behavioral components of publicly expressed stigma, and combining theoretical learning, observational experience on psychiatric wards, frontal lectures, case reviews, discussions, peer supervision, and simulations. The workshop's impact was measured systematically using a structured self-administered questionnaire examining cognitive, affective, and behavioral components of stigmatization.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The workshop significantly increased perceived knowledge and decreased stigmatizing attitudes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The evaluation presented here demonstrates a less-known aspect of the possible contribution of expert psychiatric nurses to mental health education in a wider context.
authors.affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel.
authors.forename: Semyon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Melnikov
authors.affiliation: Nursing Administrator, Beer Yakov Mental Health Centre, Israel.
authors.forename: Tamar
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Elyan-Antar
authors.affiliation: Nursing Administrator, Ness Tziona Mental Health Centre, Israel.
authors.forename: Razia
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schor
authors.affiliation: Director of Nursing, Ness Tziona Mental Health Centre, Israel, and Department of Nursing, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
authors.forename: Ronit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kigli-Shemesh
authors.affiliation: Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
authors.forename: Ilya
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kagan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004493:Education / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D016495:Police / Q000193:education*; D011329:Prisoners; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D057545:Social Stigma
keywords: Psychiatric nurses; public attitudes; stigmatization; the mentally ill; workshop intervention