TY - JOUR
T1 - Australian and Indian nursing students’ skills and attitudes surrounding mental illness
T2 - Preparing for a transnational nursing education collaboration
AU - Patterson, Christopher
AU - Perlman, Dana
AU - Moxham, Lorna
AU - Sudhakar, Christopher
AU - Nayak, Asha K.
AU - Velayudhan, Binil
AU - Jose, Tessy Treesa
AU - Tapsell, Amy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
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PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Cultural competence is a viewed as a necessary set of skills within nursing, and there is a need for student support in this area. This is particularly important in mental health care, with two skills considered crucial for providing quality care: therapeutic relationship skills and positive attitudes. With the objective of initiating an educational collaboration between two educational institutions, this study examined Australian and Indian undergraduate nursing student's perceived therapeutic relationship skills and stigma attitudes associated with mental illness. Participants were five hundred and fifty-five (n = 555) undergraduate nursing students from two different universities in Indian and Australia. The modified version of the Scale To Assess Therapeutic Relationship (STAR-C) and the Social Distance Scale (SDS) were both used to examine student's perceived therapeutic relationship skills and stigma attitudes. Australian nursing students indicated lower levels of stigma with lower levels of self-reported therapeutic relationships skills, as compared with the Indian nursing student cohort. However, Indian nursing students indicated higher levels of stigma with higher self-reported therapeutic relationship skills. The results of this study may reflect cultural differences and meanings attached to mental illness.
AB - Cultural competence is a viewed as a necessary set of skills within nursing, and there is a need for student support in this area. This is particularly important in mental health care, with two skills considered crucial for providing quality care: therapeutic relationship skills and positive attitudes. With the objective of initiating an educational collaboration between two educational institutions, this study examined Australian and Indian undergraduate nursing student's perceived therapeutic relationship skills and stigma attitudes associated with mental illness. Participants were five hundred and fifty-five (n = 555) undergraduate nursing students from two different universities in Indian and Australia. The modified version of the Scale To Assess Therapeutic Relationship (STAR-C) and the Social Distance Scale (SDS) were both used to examine student's perceived therapeutic relationship skills and stigma attitudes. Australian nursing students indicated lower levels of stigma with lower levels of self-reported therapeutic relationships skills, as compared with the Indian nursing student cohort. However, Indian nursing students indicated higher levels of stigma with higher self-reported therapeutic relationship skills. The results of this study may reflect cultural differences and meanings attached to mental illness.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102909
DO - 10.1016/j.nepr.2020.102909
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85097423619
SN - 1471-5953
VL - 50
JO - Nurse Education in Practice
JF - Nurse Education in Practice
M1 - 102909
ER -