Title :
Social distance of nursing and social welfare university students to persons with mental disorders and its´ relations with contact experience
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Health & Social Welfare, Prefectural Univ., Okayama, Japan
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;
Conference_Titel :
Natural Language Processing andKnowledge Engineering (NLP-KE), 2011 7th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokushima
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-729-0
DOI :
10.1109/NLPKE.2011.6138238
