Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2011 Nov;57(6):574-9. doi: 10.1177/0020764010374419. Epub 2010 Jul 7.
Nursing students' attitudes towards people with mental illness can be influenced by training experience.
To examine the relationship between the attitudes of nursing students towards people with mental illness and the psychiatric training imparted to the students by using textual data and conducting frequency analysis.
We identified the words/phrases which were considered to represent the attitudes towards people with mental illness at pre-training (T1) and post-training (T2) stages from reports written by 76 Japanese nursing students, and examined the differences in the frequencies of the words/phrases used at T1 and T2.
With regard to the students' attitudes towards people with mental illness, generally, the frequencies of words/phrases that had somewhat negative to strongly negative nuances were high at T1, whereas those of the words/phrases that had somewhat positive or neutral nuances were high at T2. Also, analysis showed that words/phrases such as 'scary' were used more frequently at T1, whereas words/phrases such as 'not scary' were used more often at T2.
The students' attitudes may change favourably owing to, at least in part, psychiatric training.
护生对精神疾病患者的态度可能会受到培训经历的影响。
使用文本数据和频率分析，考察护生对精神疾病患者的态度与学生接受的精神科培训之间的关系。
我们从 76 名日本护理学生的报告中确定了代表学生在培训前（T1）和培训后（T2）阶段对精神疾病患者的态度的词语/短语，并检查了 T1 和 T2 时使用的词语/短语的频率差异。
一般来说，与精神疾病患者的态度相关，T1 时具有一定消极到强烈消极含义的词语/短语的频率较高，而具有一定积极或中性含义的词语/短语的频率较高T2。此外，分析表明，T1 时更常使用“可怕”等词语，而 T2 时更常使用“不可怕”等词语。
由于至少部分原因，精神科培训可能会使学生的态度发生有利的变化。
