ARCHIVES OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING, cilt.29, sa.6, ss.383-387, 2015 (SCI-Expanded)
This paper studied and determined the importance of the design and color of selected uniforms of psychiatric nurses and evaluate their effects and implications for patients. In this descriptive study, a questionnaire developed by the researchers and a nursing uniforms catalog were used during the data collection stage of the research. There were 40.9% of the participants who told that the design and color of a nursing uniform is important and 31.5% of the participants selected white uniform color from the catalog for psychiatric nurses and 33.9% of the patients expressed that they find white nursing uniforms comforting. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Inc.