Nursing students' attitude change towards mental illness and psychiatric case recognition after a clerkship in psychiatry

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-183

  Madianos, Michael G ^a,c   Priami, Maria ^a   Alevisopoulos, George ^a   Koukia, Evmorfia ^b   Rogakou, Efi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^c Faculty of Nursing A'   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSING; PSYCHIATRY; RATING SCALE; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRAINING;

ADULT; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 15944392495     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840590901635     Document Type: Article

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