Psychiatric nurses' attitudes towards identified inpatients as measured by the semantic differential technique

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 12-19

  Hellzén, Maria ^a   Lind, Ingbritt ^a   Dahl, Annika ^a   Hellzén, Ove ^b  

^a Vasternorrland County Council   (Sweden)

^b MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Entropy; Factor analysis; Nursing; Psychiatry; Semantic differential

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMPATHY; ENTROPY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; ARTICLE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

DATA COLLECTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 17944382126     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2005.00316.x     Document Type: Review

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