TI - Nursing Students’ Anxiety in Times of Confronting With Mentally Ill Patients PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - nmj JN - nmj VO - 7 VI - 1 IP - 1 4099 - http://nmj.goums.ac.ir/article-1-5-en.html 4100 - http://nmj.goums.ac.ir/article-1-5-en.pdf SO - nmj 1 AB  - Background and Objective: Nurses and nursing students, as a member of psychiatric team, have not enough incentive for caring mental disorders. Because of some negative stereotypic beliefs and anxiety, they neglect some aspects of psychiatric care. We decided to study on nursing students’ anxiety in facing with mentally ill patients. Material and Methods: In this descriptive study, 64 nursing students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences were selected via convenience sampling. The instruments were demographic information data sheet and interpersonal anxiety scale. We used Descriptive statistics, Spearman correlation coefficient, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests to analyze the data (spss 16). Results: The students aged 43.20±5.1 were female (56.8%) and male (43.20%). Anxiety level in 17.9% of participants were severe and in 48.1% of them moderate (P CP - IRAN IN - LG - eng PB - nmj PG - 20 PT - Original Article YR - 2010