Nursing students' attitudes toward mental health nursing and consumers: Psychometric properties of a self-report scale

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 184-193

  Hayman White, Karla ^a   Happell, Brenda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL DISEASE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING STUDENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAREER CHOICE; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MENTAL DISORDERS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS; STUDENTS, NURSING; VICTORIA;

EID: 22544472734     PISSN: 08839417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnu.2005.05.004     Document Type: Article

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