Nurses attitudes towards the importance of families in psychiatric care following an educational and training intervention program

Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 895-903

  Sveinbjarnardottir, E K ^a,b   Svavarsdottir, E K ^b   Saveman, B I ^c  

^a LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitudes of nurses towards the importance of families; Educational and training intervention program for nurses; Family systems nursing; Psychiatric nurses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE; NURSING EDUCATION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; EDUCATION, NURSING, CONTINUING; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSES; NURSING EDUCATION RESEARCH; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 82255163060     PISSN: 13510126     EISSN: 13652850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2011.01744.x     Document Type: Article

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