Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 83-90 , January 2009

Comparison in attitudes between nursing and other students in relation to containment measures for disturbed psychiatric patients

  • Eimear Muir-Cochrane

      Affiliations

    • Chair of Nursing (Mental Health Nursing), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 (08) 8201 5907.
    • ,
  • Len Bowers

      Affiliations

    • St. Bartholomew School of Nursing and Midwifery, City University, Philpot Street, London E1 2EA, UK
    • Tel.: +44 20 7040 5824; fax: +44 20 7040 5811.
    • ,
  • Debra Jeffery

      Affiliations

    • St. Bartholomew School of Nursing and Midwifery, City University, Philpot Street, London E1 2EA, UK

,Accepted 10 July 2008.

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PII: S0260-6917(08)00097-X

doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2008.07.002

Nurse Education Today
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 83-90 , January 2009

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