Effect of the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Curriculum on Students' Attitude Towards Mental Illness | ||||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||||
| Article 70, Volume 13, Issue 3, September 2022, Page 923-939 PDF (378.19 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.255696 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mervat, Rohaim Hamzawy1; Zeinab, Abdel-Hamid Loutfi2; Amal Elias Abdel-Aziz3 | ||||
| 1B.Sc. in Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Ain Shams University, | ||||
| 2Prof. of Psychiatric -Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing-Ain Shams University | ||||
| 3Lecturer of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing-Ain Shams University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Assessment of undergraduate nursing students' attitudes toward mental illness is an important aspect as they are the future care providers. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the psychiatric- mental health nursing curriculum on students' attitudes toward mental illness. Design: A cross-sectional descriptive design was used. Setting: The study was carried out at the Technical Nursing School of Nasser Institute Hospital for Research and Treatment affiliated to the Ministry of Health of Egypt at Cairo governorate. Subject: 92 nursing students were included. Tools: Part one: Socio-demographic questionnaire to assess socio-demographic characteristics of the nursing students, socio-demographic characteristics of students' parents and students' knowledge and source of knowledge about mental illness. Part two: Attitude about Mental Illness scale. Results: There was a highly statistically significant improvement of nursing students’ attitudes percent score toward mental illness regarding all studied dimensions in post- intervention as compared to the pre- intervention phase. Conclusion: there was a highly statistically significant positive correlation between all dimensions reflecting nursing students' attitudes toward mental illness. Recommendations: The study recommend that, the psychiatric mental-health nursing curriculum of Technical Nursing School of the Ministry Of Health have to be updated. Increasing awareness of the value of the mental- health nurses and increasing the acceptance of mental illness starting from the first year of nursing schools. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Attitude; Mental health nursing curriculum; Mental illness | ||||
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