Determination of the Mental Disorder Beliefs of Students in a Nursing Faculty

WOS: 000387354700005Objectives: This study planned to determine nursing students' beliefs toward mental disorders and effective factors on these beliefs. Methods: A descriptive study carried out 240 students which was studying at Ege University during the academic year 2014-2015 and was taking mental health nursing course. The data were collected by "Descriptive Information Form" and "Beliefs toward Mental Illness Scale (BMI)". In the analyses of the data student t test and One Way Anova analysis were used. Results: The average age of students were 22.47-1.37 years; of all participants' were 86.2% women, 69.2% in third and 30.8% in fourth grade, 67.9% not fulfill mental health nursing course's practice, % 82.1 had any family member suffer from mental disorders, 62.5% had anyone with suffer from mental disorders, 92.1% had any mental disorder diagnosis for him/herself ever and 94.2% worked with any civil society organization related with mental disorders. Students' average score of BMI subscales was 27.05-7.69 for "Poor social and interpersonal skills and incurability", 18.54-5.17 for "Dangerousness", 2.03-2.59 for "Shame" and 50.55-12.64 for total scale. It is found that students' distribution of BMI total score was statistically significant only if they have any family member or know someone around him/her with mentally ill (p