International Journal of Nursing Practice 2001; 7: 414 –421 ✠ RESEARCH PAPER ✠ Mental health literacy survey of psychiatrically and generally trained nurses employed in a Singapore psychiatric hospital Soo Gim Yeo SRN, RMN, BHSc (Nurs) Assistant Nursing Director,Woodbridge Hospital, Singapore Gordon Parker MD, PhD, DSc, FRANCP Head, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney,Australia Rathi Mahendran MBBS, MMed (Psychiatry) DPM, FAMS Chief, Department of Academic Psychiatry,Woodbridge Hospital, Singapore Anthony F Jorm PhD, DSc Professor, Centre for Mental Health Research,Australia National University, Canberra,Australia Hwa Ling Yap MBBS, FAMS, MMed (Psychiatry) Consultant,Woodbridge Hospital, Singapore Cheng Lee MBBS, FAMS, MMed (Psychiatry) Registrar,Woodbridge Hospital, Singapore Min Ing Loh BSc (Hons) Research Assistant, Institute of Mental Health, Singapore Accepted for publication February 2001 Yeo SG, Parker G, Mahendran R, Jorm AF, Yap HL, Lee C, Loh MI. International Journal of Nursing Practice 2001; 7: 414 – 421 Mental health literacy survey of psychiatrically and generally trained nurses employed in a Singapore psychiatric hospital Mental health literacy studies consider the capacity of respondents to recognize certain psychiatric disorders, judge the comparative utility of a range of interventions, and make estimates about outcome and prognostic issues.We report such a study involving a sample of nursing staff employed at a large psychiatric institution in Singapore, and who were pro- vided with separate brief vignettes of mania, schizophrenia and depression. Subjects were highly accurate in ‘diagnosing’ Correspondence: Madam SG Yeo, Institute of Mental Health 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747, Republic of Singapore. Email: soo – gim – yeo@imh.com.sg