TY - JOUR
KW - Attitude to Health
KW - Bible
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Mental Disorders
KW - Mental Health
KW - Mentally Ill Persons
KW - Prejudice
KW - Sick Role
KW - Social Perception
KW - Spirituality
KW - Stereotyping
AU - Amerongen DI
AU - Cook LH
AB - <p>Leprosy in the ancient world involved quarantine from family and society and great stigma. Similarly, mental illness today can involve separation, lost potential, and stigma. As with leprosy, most people misunderstand etiology, treatment, and prognosis in mental illness. Nurses are in a key position to educate, intervene, and improve mental health outcomes.</p>
BT - Journal of Christian nursing : a quarterly publication of Nurses Christian Fellowship
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20364520?dopt=Abstract
DA - 2010 Apr-Jun
DO - 10.1097/cnj.0b013e3181d26050
IS - 2
J2 - J Christ Nurs
LA - eng
N2 - <p>Leprosy in the ancient world involved quarantine from family and society and great stigma. Similarly, mental illness today can involve separation, lost potential, and stigma. As with leprosy, most people misunderstand etiology, treatment, and prognosis in mental illness. Nurses are in a key position to educate, intervene, and improve mental health outcomes.</p>
PY - 2010
SP - 86
EP - 90
T2 - Journal of Christian nursing : a quarterly publication of Nurses Christian Fellowship
TI - Mental illness: a modern-day leprosy?
VL - 27
SN - 0743-2550
ER -