@article{9069,
  keywords = {Attitude to Health, Bible, Humans, leprosy, Mental Disorders, Mental Health, Mentally Ill Persons, Prejudice, Sick Role, Social Perception, Spirituality, Stereotyping},
  author = {Amerongen DI and Cook LH},
  title = {Mental illness: a modern-day leprosy?},
  abstract = {<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>},
  year = {2010},
  journal = {Journal of Christian nursing : a quarterly publication of Nurses Christian Fellowship},
  volume = {27},
  pages = {86-90},
  month = {2010 Apr-Jun},
  issn = {0743-2550},
  doi = {10.1097/cnj.0b013e3181d26050},
  language = {eng},
}