Abstract
Public attitudes towards mental illness have been widely studied, but the attitudes of psychiatric patients towards their hospitals have received less crosscultural attention. Using an attitude schedule, M. W. KAHN et al. com pared the attitudes of Korean psychiatric patients towards hospitalization with those of psychiatric patients in the U.S.A. Their investigations demonstrate that in hospitals in different countries patients can hold considerably different views of their situations and suggest that the differences noted have a cultural base.
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