- Title
- Health Care Professionals’ Attitudes Towards Patients with Mental Illness at Nelson Mandela Central Hospital
- Creator
- Mateta, Silwana P Z
- Description
- The belief that persons with mental illness are dangerous and unpredictable has been noted in several studies. This perception is often associated with fear in those who hold this belief. The unpredictable nature of mental illness may also be a factor in how health care professionals react to and provide care for mentally ill patients. This may lead to an increase in negative attitudes towards mentally ill patients thereby resulting in negative patient outcomes. In South Africa (SA) there is paucity of literature regarding attitudes towards mental illness. Most studies done in SA have focused on patients’ experience of stigma and community attitudes towards people with mental illness. This research was conducted against this background to assess health care professionals’ attitudes towards patients with mental illness at the study site, which was at Nelson Mandela Central Hospital, in the Eastern Cape. The aim of this study was thus to investigate the attitudes of health care professionals working at Nelson Mandela Central Hospital towards patients with mental illness…
- Description
- Degree: M. Medicine (Psychiatry)
- Date
- 2024
- Subject
- Mental illness
- Subject
- Health care professionals
- Subject
- Nelson Mandela Central Hospital
- Type
- Masters (Thesis)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/11260/13472
- Identifier
- vital:78934
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Walter Sisulu University
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