article history: received date: 28 august, 2016 review date: 7 october 2016 accepted date:25 october 2016 printed online:1 september purpose: the initiation of anti-bullying movements in school’s dates back to nearly three decades ago in some countries. despite the importance of such a movement and its grave implications for education systems, no particular program or action has been organized ...

purpose: the initiation of anti-bullying movements in schoolsdates back to nearly three decades ago in some countries. despite the importance of such a movement and its grave implications foreducation systems, no particular program or action has been organized in our country. materials and method: the present study presents a cross-sectional descriptive survey to assess the attitudes of primary...

Psychosocial and other factors that may affect patient self care in acute asthma were investigated in 210 asthmatic adults recruited from general practice and hospital clinics. Interviews and self complete questionnaires were used to assess patients' management of a hypothetical slow onset and rapid onset attack of asthma, attitudes to asthma, family support, psychiatric morbidity, recent asthm...

Psychosocial and other factors that may affect patient self care in acute asthma were investigated in 210 asthmatic adults recruited from general practice and hospital clinics. Interviews and self complete questionnaires were used to assess patients' management of a hypothetical slow onset and rapid onset attack of asthma, attitudes to asthma, family support, psychiatric morbidity, recent asthm...

Objectives To measure student nurses’ attitudes toward health and identify the influence of demographic characteristics and psychological wellbeing on these attitudes. Design A cross‐sectional survey between April and June 2006. Setting An Australian University in South‐East Queensland. Subjects 369 students enrolled in the Bachelor of Nursing, Pre‐Registration Program. Main outcome measures At...

Much more is known about attitudes toward mental illness and social stigma, the viscious cycle of its consequences and how to fight the social stigma in public, but much less is known about how to combat the stigma and self stigma in clinical practice. Stigma theories have not been enough to understand the feelings and experience of people with mental illness. Conceptual framework that understa...

C ognitive, individual differences, and intergroup contact factors were examined in the formation of attitudes about human rights and ethnic bias in two studies conducted in Spain. A 7-item scale measuring knowledge about human rights laws in Spain and the European Union was used in both studies. Participants were university students enrolled at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. In study one,...

BACKGROUND Public stigma against people with mental health problems is damaging to individuals with mental illness and is associated with substantial societal burden. AIMS To investigate whether public knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in relation to people with mental health problems have improved among the English population since the inception of the Time To Change programme in 2009. ME...