A descriptive study to assess the attitude of nursing students towards mentally ill patients and psychiatry in selected mental health setting in Delhi

Subhash Chand Gupta, Priyanka Chaudhary

Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences, Delhi, India

ABSTRACT

Current descriptive study is result of pilot study conducted among 60 nursing students in psychiatry & rehabilitative center of Delhi to assess their attitude towards mentally ill patients and psychiatry. Convenient sampling method is used to allocate the samples and data were collected with help of Google form. Findings of the study revealed that nursing students attitude towards mentally ill people and psychiatry is in higher side from minimum which indicates favorable attitudes towards psychiatry. There is no significant association between attitude towards mental ill patients and selected socio-demographic variable. There is no significant association between attitude towards Psychiatric and selected socio except pursuing course. There is negative correlation found between attitude towards mentally ill patients and psychiatry.

Keywords:

psychiatry, negative & positive attitude, different religion, correlation