Assessing nurses' attitudes towards patients in forensic psychiatry
non-experimental descriptive quantitative research
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https://doi.org/10.14528/snr.2020.54.2.2973Keywords:
interpersonal relationships, health care, treatment measures, mental disorder, psychiatryAbstract
Introduction: Forensic psychiatry treats a vulnerable group of patients. Patients are characterized by a more stigmatized identity, including the stigma of a mental disorder on one hand, and the stigma of a criminal act that a person has committed, on the other. The purpose of the study was to investigate the knowledge and attitude of nursing staff towards patients in forensic psychiatry.
Methods: A descriptive non-experimental quantitative survey was conducted. The questionnaire was distributed among 320 nursing staff in the field of psychiatry and outside the psychiatric profession, with a realization of 74.4% (n = 238).
Results: On average, respondents ( = 3.04, s = 1.17) were familiar with forensic psychiatry; Employees outside the field of psychiatry (n = 55, x = 5.72, s = 2.57) expressed a more dismissive attitude (U = 838.50, p <0.001) than psychiatry employees (n = 66, x = 7.53, s = 2.17), they also identified several negative patient characteristics (U = 115.000, p = 0.043) and expressed more stigma (U = 1218.000, p = 0.002).
Discussion and conclusion: Psychiatric staff are less anxious, have less stigma, and are more familiar with the field of forensic psychiatry. Since knowledge, fear and stigma are related to the quality of health care, employees should be trained for work with vulnerable populations such as patients in forensic psychiatry. In this way, they can provide better health care.
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