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Nursing Majors’ Attitudes Toward Suicide And Mental Health Training, Beverly Arleen Burton
Nursing Majors’ Attitudes Toward Suicide And Mental Health Training, Beverly Arleen Burton
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
AbstractThe mental health training of nursing majors may play a role in their levels of confidence in attending to suicide patients as working professionals. The purpose of this quantitative study was to explore what impact, if any, attitudes toward suicide had on nursing majors’ levels of confidence in their mental health training. Pender’s health promotion theory was the theoretical framework. A descriptive correlational survey was used to explore individuals majoring in nursing confidence and perceived skills in mental health training. The 4 research questions asked the relationship between the level of confidence in helping someone with a mental health problem …