Deborah A Dougherty, Susan E Toth-Cohen, George S Tomlin
Beyond research literature: Occupational therapists' perspectives on and uses of "evidence" in everyday practice
Canadian journal of occupational therapy. Revue canadienne d'ergotherapie
introduction individuals mental illness often experience stigma healthcare professionals including emergency nurses purpose study identify personal professional attributes emergency nurses may related level stigma toward people mental illness us methods secondary analysis crosssectional study analyze emergency nurses characteristics perceptions stigma toward mental illness measured mental illness clinicians attitudes scale4 mica v4 data analyses consisted descriptive statistics stepwise linear regression analysis internal consistency mica v4 current sample results mean mica v4 scores sample 534 linear regression analysis revealed significant model explaining 235 variance mica v4 scores f34 64 p 0001 r2 0235 many attributes found strong association lower stigmatizing attitudes discussion results study indicated high levels stigma toward individuals mental illness findings study inform nursing education research ultimately improve health outcomes individuals mental illness