The Effect of Cine-education Method on Mental Diseases Beliefs and Stigmatization Tendency in Student Nurses

OpenAlex İngilizce

Objective: This research was carried out to determine the effect of cinema films watched on nursing students on mental illness beliefs and stigmatization tendencies. Method: This research, which was planned in the pretest-posttest, semi-trial pattern without a control group, was conducted between March and May 2020 with student nurses who took psychiatric nursing courses at a university. The impact of screening movies on students' beliefs about mental illness and stigmatization tendencies were evaluated. Personal data form, Beliefs Towards Mental Diseases Scale (BTMDS) and Stigma Scale (SS) were used to collect the data, and the data were analyzed in the SPSS package program. Results: A statistically significant difference was found between the students’ pre-test and post-test SS, BTMDS mean scores and its sub-dimensions. (p