Measuring nurse attitudes towards deliberate self-harm: The Self-Harm Antipathy Scale (SHAS)

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 438-445

  Patterson, P ^a,d   Whittington, R ^b   Bogg, J ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Health Sciences   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antipathy; Attitude dimensions factor analysis; Nurses; Questionnaire; Self harm

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AUTOMUTILATION; COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; EMPATHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSE; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPREHENSION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMPATHY; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MALE; MEDICAL FUTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSES; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; WALES;

EID: 34547180367     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01102.x     Document Type: Article

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