The determining of a faculty of nursing students' beliefs toward mental disorders
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2016
Yazarlar: Seren GUNAY, Tugba BEKITKOL, Gizem BEYCAN EKİTLİ, Serap YILDIRIM
Journal of Psychiatric Nursing, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, 2016, cilt 7, ss 129-134
Özet
Objectives: This study planned to determine nursing students' beliefs toward mental disorders and effective factors on these beliefs.Methods: A descriptive study carried out 240 students which was studying at Ege University during the academic year 2014-2015 and was taking mental health nursing course.The data were collected by "Descriptive Information Form" and "Beliefs toward Mental Illness Scale (BMI)".In the analyses of the data student t test and One Way Anova analysis were used.Results: The average age of students were 22.47±1.37years; of all participants' were 86.2% women, 69.2% in third and 30.8% in fourth grade, 67.9% not fulfill mental health nursing course's practice, %82.1 had any family member suffer from mental disorders, 62.5% had anyone with suffer from mental disorders, 92.1% had any mental disorder diagnosis for him/herself ever and 94.2% worked with any civil society organization related with mental disorders.Students' average score of BMI subscales was 27.05±7.69for "Poor social and interpersonal skills and incurability", 18.54±5.17for "Dangerousness", 2.03±2.59for "Shame" and 50.55±12.64for total scale.It is found that students' distribution of BMI total score was statistically significant only if they have any family member or know someone around him/her with mentally ill (p<0.05);there was no significantly difference in age, gender, grade, carrying on any mental health nursing practice, having any mental disorders diagnoses and working with a civil society organization.Conclusion: Because of having an impact directly on clients' treatment and care and indirect impact on community burden, it's important to identify students' beliefs toward mental disorders as a future's health professional and to strengthen students' self-awareness in this field.