TY - JOUR
T1 - Lived-experience participation in nurse education:Reducing stigma and enhancing popularity
AU - HAPPELL, Brenda
AU - BYRNE, LOUISE
AU - PLATANIA-PHUNG, Chris
AU - Harris, Scott
AU - Bradshaw, Julie
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Mental health nursing consistently emerges as less popular than other specialties, and both service users and mental health practitioners are affected by negative attitudes. Education is fundamental to attracting students to the field of mental health nursing. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of undergraduate mental health curricula on student attitudes to people with mental illness, and career interest in mental health nursing. A traditional mental health course was compared to a course delivered by a person with lived experience of mental illness (and mental health service use) for its impact on student attitudes and career intentions in mental health nursing (cohort 1: n = 70, cohort 2: n = 131, respectively). In both cohorts, attitudes were measured via self-report, before and after the course, and changes were investigated through within-subjects t-tests. The lived experience-led course demonstrated statistically-significant positive changes in intentions to pursue mental health nursing and a decrease in negative stereotypes, which were not observed in the traditional course. The valuable contribution of mental health nursing emerged in the traditional, but not lived-experience-led, programmes. These findings support the value of an academic with lived experience of mental health challenges in promoting attraction to mental health nursing as a career option
AB - Mental health nursing consistently emerges as less popular than other specialties, and both service users and mental health practitioners are affected by negative attitudes. Education is fundamental to attracting students to the field of mental health nursing. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of undergraduate mental health curricula on student attitudes to people with mental illness, and career interest in mental health nursing. A traditional mental health course was compared to a course delivered by a person with lived experience of mental illness (and mental health service use) for its impact on student attitudes and career intentions in mental health nursing (cohort 1: n = 70, cohort 2: n = 131, respectively). In both cohorts, attitudes were measured via self-report, before and after the course, and changes were investigated through within-subjects t-tests. The lived experience-led course demonstrated statistically-significant positive changes in intentions to pursue mental health nursing and a decrease in negative stereotypes, which were not observed in the traditional course. The valuable contribution of mental health nursing emerged in the traditional, but not lived-experience-led, programmes. These findings support the value of an academic with lived experience of mental health challenges in promoting attraction to mental health nursing as a career option
KW - Attitude
KW - Consumer participation
KW - Lived-experience participation
KW - Lived-experience practitioner
KW - Mental health nursing
KW - Undergraduate education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84909976829&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/livedexperience-participation-nurse-education-reducing-stigma-enhancing-popularity
U2 - 10.1111/inm.12077
DO - 10.1111/inm.12077
M3 - Article
SN - 1447-0349
VL - 23
SP - 427
EP - 434
JO - International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
JF - International Journal of Mental Health Nursing
IS - 5
ER -