Study on the nurses’ opinions about the community mental health

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the nurses' opinions who were interested with mental health care and also how they thought the present conditions of community mental health care. The subjects were 81 nurses in the YoungNam area. In July 1999, that data were collected using a convenience sample technique. A survey questionnaire structured by Nam & Choi(1993) was used for this research to obtain the informations about (a) general characteristics (b) the serious proportions of mental health problems (c) the serious aspect of mental health problem (d) the opinions about mental health service system (e) the opinions about the asylum system and (f) the view of the mentally ill Data were analyzed using the spsspc program for the actual number, percentage, mean, standard deviation(S.D) and factor analysis. This research was to explore that how the nurses thought the social recovery of the mentally disabled, what they would suggest and how they would correspond to the today's changes. We have to establish good standards of community mental health ewe although we have to face the stigma and prejudice still common among ordinary people. So, it seems that the findings in this study would be basically useful for planning the countermeasures for the psychiatric patients in the YoungNam area.