PURPOSE: This article describes the results of a study into how first-year nursing students'
perceptions of psychiatric patients and mental health care influence their choice of …

Accessible summary• Individuals with serious mental ill health suffer excessive physical
illness.• The causes of physical illness amongst the seriously mentally ill are complex and …

BACKGROUND: Gerontological nursing is often viewed as unchallenging and is rarely a
positive career choice for student nurses. Issues of recruitment and retention in …

The authors explored attitudes toward adults with mental illness. Results suggest that mental
health trainees and professionals had less stigmatizing attitudes than did non‐mental …

People with a mental illness are typically perceived as being dangerous, unpredictable and
different. We sought to explore these perceptions and their correlates in relation to people …

Previous research examining the impact of education on nursing students' attitudes towards
mental health nursing as a career has highlighted clinical experience as the primary …

Because mental health professionals are not immune to negative attitudes toward adults
with mental illness, researchers have questioned where these attitudes might originate, as …

There is a paucity of measures suitable for assessing the impact of educational and clinical
placement strategies on nursing students' career preferences and attitudes toward mental …

Negative attitudes towards mental illness and the mental health nursing profession have
deterred many undergraduate nursing students from considering this area as an attractive …

Background. With ageing demographics, it is important that nurse education curriculum can
prepare students to work with older people. Aims and objectives. To explore students' …