Attitudes towards people with physical or intellectual disabilities: Nursing students and non-nursing peers

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2562-2573

  Ten Klooster, Peter M ^a   Dannenberg, Jan Willem ^b   Taal, Erik ^a   Burger, Gerard ^c   Rasker, Johannes J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b Dimence   (Netherlands)

^c SAXION UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Intellectual disabilities; Non nursing peers; Nursing students; Physical disabilities

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISABLED PERSON; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; NURSING STUDENT; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS, NURSING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70450209195     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2009.05146.x     Document Type: Article

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