Date Available
12-7-2018
Year of Publication
2018
Degree Name
Doctor of Nursing Practice
Advisor
Dr. Evelyn Parrish
Committee Member
Dr. Peggy El-Mallakh
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Joanne Matthews
Abstract
Stigma regarding mental illness is common throughout the world, and can lead to social isolation, low self-esteem, loss of income and employment, deterioration of life quality, impeded access to medical care, and a shorter lifespan for people diagnosed with a mental illness (Cleary, Deacon, Jackson, Andrew, & Chan, 2012; Corrigan et al., 2013). The purpose of this DNP project was to provide an evidence-based intervention called In Our Own Voice (IOOV) to first semester sophomore nursing students and assess its impact on their perceptions of mental illness stigma. Alterations in stigma were assessed through the Attribution Questionnaire-27 administered to students directly before and after the program. The present quantitative DNP project provided evidence that the National Alliance of Mental Illness’s IOOV presentation had a significant reduction in stigma of these nursing students in the factors of anger, dangerousness, fear, avoidance, help, and segregation, but not in blame and pity. However, there was a significant increase in their perceptions about coercion to treatment after the presentation.
Recommended Citation
STEELE, STEPHANIE, "Tne Effect of In Our Own Voice on Stigma in BSN Students" (2018). DNP Projects. 234.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/dnp_etds/234