Attitude Towards Mental Illness Among Staff Nurses in a Tertiary Care Hospital- A Hospital-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Worldwide despite growing evidence of the importance of mental health for economic, social and human capital, people with mental health problems and even the very concept of mental health, receive negative publicity and are stigmatised in public perceptions. Negative and stigmatising attitudes are found even among healthcare staff including nurses. Today, the focus of psychiatric care is on de-institutionalisation: this depends on a number of key conditions, of which tolerance and nondiscrimination are among the most important. To deal with that problem, intervention has to be started from the healthcare professional's level itself, for which the present attitude of them has to be understood.