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| How nurses' attire affects elderly psychiatric patients' ability to recognise them | | Author(s) | Hugh Joseph McCreedy, Peter William Bentham |
| Journal title | Psychiatric Bulletin, vol 22, no 4, April 1998 |
| Pages | pp 236-238 |
| Keywords | Psychogeriatric patients ; Nurses ; Clothing. |
| Annotation | The ability of older patients to identify a nurse wearing a uniform as opposed to mufti (plain clothes) was investigated together with the effect of administrator attire on the Abbreviated Mental Test score (AMT). Thirty-six out of 71 patients identified a nurse wearing mufti increasing to 59 patients out of 71 when wearing uniform. Patients rated by a uniformed nurse had significantly higher mean AMT scores than when rated by a nurse in mufti, and this also had a significant effect in the sensitivity in predicting an organic diagnosis. |
| Accession Number | CPA-980430403 A |
| Classmark | LF:E: QTE: YW7 |
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