Social distance of nursing and social welfare university students to persons with mental disorders and its´ relations with contact experience

Author

Sakano, Junko

Author_Institution

Dept. of Health & Social Welfare, Prefectural Univ., Okayama, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

27-29 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

430

Lastpage

433

Abstract

The study aims to clarify social distance of nursing and social welfare university students to persons with mental disorders and its´ relations with contact experience and to obtain implications of support for community life of persons with mental disorders. The data of 664 university students in Japan were used for analysis in this survey. The analysis showed a shorter social distance in women than in men. The social distance was larger for students of nursing and social welfare major to persons with schizophrenia than students of the other majors. Social distance was found to vary depending on the contact experience.

Keywords

behavioural sciences computing; social sciences computing; Japan; contact experience scale; mental disorder; nursing student; schizophrenia; social distance scale; social welfare university student; Medical services; Stigma; community nursing; depression; mental disability; professional development training; schizophrenia;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Natural Language Processing andKnowledge Engineering (NLP-KE), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokushima

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-729-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NLPKE.2011.6138238

Filename

6138238