Australian undergraduate nursing students' opinions on mental illness

作者：Millar Rebecca^*

来源：Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2017, 34(3): 34-42.

• competencies
• forensics
• mental health
• nursing

Objective
To determine second year Bachelor of Nursing students' opinions on mental illness and relationship with demographic data for the purpose of curriculum development.
Design
The present study is a pilot study for a larger project which will investigate undergraduate nursing student opinions across the duration of their undergraduate degree at an Australian university. The 'Student Opinions of Mental Illness Scale', a 53 point Likert type questionnaire was used in a sample of second year nursing students to investigate their opinions of mental illness.
Setting
Metropolitan nursing school in Victoria, Australia.
Subjects
133 second year undergraduate Bachelor of Nursing students'.
Main outcome measures
Student opinions based on Likert responses.
Results
The study revealed that student experiences, education, employment history of country of birth may impact upon student opinions of mental illness.
Conclusion
Overall, students were found to have a generally neutral opinion about mental illness except in the sub-scale factors of benevolence, mental hygiene ideology and interpersonal aetiology where students held less positive opinions. Knowing the student populations opinions about a subject matter can assist academics to direct and focus their efforts to improve those opinions in those areas.

• 出版日期2017-5