Attitudes towards mental illness among health care students at Swedish universities : a follow-up study after completed clinical placement

• The aim of the study was to examine the changes in attitudes towards mental illness after theorethical education and clinical placement among students from university programmes preparing for different kinds of health professions. Three different questionnaries were used, measuring the level of familaritiy with mental illness and attitudes towards mental illness in general and toward specific mental illnesses. The data were collected on two occasions, before the theorethical course and after the completed clinical placement. The result showed that the attitudes toward mental illnes in general had changed in a less stigmatising direction after the clinical placement. On the other hand, attitudes toward specific illnesses did not show any major changes.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Hälsovetenskap -- Omvårdnad (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Health Sciences -- Nursing (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Mental illness

stigma

clinical placement

health education

professional education

Social sciences

Socialvetenskap

caring sciences in social sciences

omvårdnadsforskning med samhällsvetenskaplig inriktning

psykiatri

Psychiatry

Sociology

sociologi

Health education

Clinical placement

Mental illness

Stigma

Professional education

Caring sciences

Vårdvetenskap

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)