Nursing attitudes towards acute mental health care: Development of a measurement tool

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 522-529

  Baker, John A ^a   Richards, David A ^b   Campbell, Malcolm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute mental health care; Attitudes; Measurement tools; Nursing; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING; NURSING STAFF; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSING STAFF; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 14844342385     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2004.03325.x     Document Type: Article

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