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

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 546-553

  Lilja, L ^a   Ordell, M ^a   Dahl, A ^b   Hellzen O ^a  

^a MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Vasternorrland County Council   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Entropy; Nursing; Psychiatry; Semantic differential

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYMPTOM; WARD;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ENTROPY; FEMALE; GROUP HOMES; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL;

EID: 4944266399     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2004.00758.x     Document Type: Review

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