Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Attitude of health workers to the care of psychiatric patients. | Annals of General Psychiatry BioMed Central Primary research Attitude of health workers to the care of psychiatric patients Aghukwa Nkereuwem Chikaodiri Open Access Address Department of Psychiatry Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Kano Nigeria Email Aghukwa Nkereuwem Chikaodiri - drchikan@ Published 23 August 2009 Received I April 2009 Annals of General Psychiatry 2009 8 19 doi 1744-859X-8-19 Accepted 23 August 2009 This article is available from http content 8 1 19 2009 Chikaodiri licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background In a few months from the time of this report wards for inpatient care of psychiatric patients at the Bayero University Medical School Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital will be ready for admissions. The attitude of staff to the care of such patients within the hospital was the focus of this study. Methods The investigation was a descriptive and cross-sectional study on a stratified and randomly selected sample population of workers at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. A questionnaire was used to elicit responses from the respondents containing 11 modified items. Statistical analysis of responses was performed. Results The number of properly completed questionnaires analysed was 362. The result showed that 232 respondents would be fearful of having psychiatric patients admitted within the hospital. In all 192 would not want their place of work to be next door to the psychiatric wards. Gender showed a significant association with responses on many of the questionnaire items P with more females than males expressing unfavourable attitudes. Profession of the respondents was significantly related to both not wanting ones place
