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Different attitudes towards mental health revealed in a survey of nurses across five European countries; more positive attitudes found in Portugal, in women and in those in senior roles
  1. Mark Haddad
  1. Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Mark Haddad
    Section of Primary Care Mental Health, PO28, Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London, London SE5 8AF, UK; mark.haddad{at}iop.kcl.ac.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn1090

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    Commentary on: Chambers M, Guise V, Välimäki M, et al. Nurses' attitudes to mental illness: a comparison of a sample of nurses from five European countries. Int J Nurs Stud 2010;47:350–62.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Attitudes to mental illness

    Examining the attitudes of nurses is a well-trod route for nurse researchers: such papers are common in our journals, describing nurses' perspectives on topics from complementary medicine to assisted suicide. These studies may involve focus groups, interviews or non-validated question sets; alternatively they may be scale development studies or may use validated scales to examine attitudes in a particular area.

    The paper by Chambers and colleagues is an example of the latter: it uses the Community Attitudes to Mental Illness questionnaire (developed in Canada in the late 1970s in response to deinstitutionalisation) to identify the attitudes of nurses working in mental health inpatient and community settings in five European countries.

    Measuring attitudes …

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