Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Irene Del N. Mastro
Summary: The Ministry of Health in Peru is promoting culturally competent and universal healthcare by implementing policies to address barriers faced by indigenous peoples. Medical providers play a role in implementing these policies, but their professional authority may affect the approach to culturally competent care. This study found that medical providers engage in non-clinical tasks, tolerate traditional medicine, and make adjustments to their practice to facilitate the provision of culturally competent care. However, these strategies may also deter some women from seeking institutional births, reproducing existing constraints faced by indigenous people in accessing healthcare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2022)
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Dermatology
Thomas B. Cwalina, David X. Zheng, Tarun K. Jella, Jeremy S. Bordeaux, Jeffrey F. Scott
Summary: Limited information about patient experiences with cultural competency within dermatology. This study sought to understand the perception of culturally competent care among skin cancer patients in the United States. The findings revealed that many skin cancer patients highly value culturally competent care, with lower-income, foreign-born patients, and patients with the highest educational attainment of a high school diploma placing greater importance on culturally competent care. However, a significant portion of patients still have limited access to culturally competent care.
ARCHIVES OF DERMATOLOGICAL RESEARCH
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ning Hsieh, Inna Mirzoyan
Summary: In the United States, individuals of different sexual orientations have varying experiences with culturally competent care and satisfaction with care. Gay men prioritize providers understanding or sharing their culture, while bisexual- and something else-identified women are less likely to feel respected and satisfied with care compared to heterosexual counterparts.
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Obstetrics & Gynecology
Carrie Torr
Summary: In the past two years, social unrest and the unequal impact of the pandemic have highlighted the racial and cultural divides in the United States. This has led to increased national awareness and a call for change in healthcare, particularly concerning racial inequities in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) outcomes. To address these inequities, it is necessary to go beyond race as a social construct and focus on the social aspects of care in the NICU. Culturally congruent care, trauma-informed care, and other approaches can help reduce disparities in neonatal outcomes.
JOURNAL OF PERINATOLOGY
(2022)
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Education, Scientific Disciplines
Sabrina A. Jacob, Uma Devi Palanisamy, Jemina Napier, Danielle Verstegen, Amreeta Dhanoa, Elizabeth Yie-Chuen Chong
Summary: Culturally competent health care providers are needed to provide care to deaf signers. Communication barriers arise because providers are ill-prepared to serve this population, resulting in poor-quality interactions and mistrust of the health care system. Training in cultural competency can improve knowledge and confidence in interacting with deaf signers. However, cultural competency programs within health care education are inconsistent.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Randi Beth Singer, Amy K. Johnson, Natasha Crooks, Douglas Bruce, Linda Wesp, Alexa Karczmar, Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Susan Sherman
Summary: This study reveals that sex workers often face discrimination and stigma in healthcare settings, limiting their access to culturally safe medical care. Despite expressing a desire for patient-centered care, many sex workers do not receive respectful or culturally responsive care. Therefore, providing culturally safe healthcare for sex workers requires ongoing provider training and systemic sensitivity to patient needs and backgrounds.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sylvia Hoens, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Lise Switsers, Liesbeth De Donder
Summary: This study found that the increase in cultural competence mainly focused on the surface structure of the organization, with the training emphasizing the principles of strengths-based education. Additionally, factors at the micro, exo, and macro levels could either foster or hinder the process of increasing cultural competence.
HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY
(2022)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Angeline Ferdinand, Libby Massey, Jennifer Cullen, Jeromey Temple, Kristy Meiselbach, Yin Paradies, Gareth Baynam, Ravi Savarirayan, Margaret Kelaher
Summary: Cultural competence is crucial in disability assessment and planning, with low levels of cultural competence exacerbating participant confusion and distrust towards assessment staff and the NDIS. Adequate engagement of individuals with disabilities and their families, trusted relationships, and culturally safe and appropriate communication during planning meetings are key factors in enhancing cultural competence.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EQUITY IN HEALTH
(2021)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Iris Z. Feinberg, Ashli Owen-Smith, Mary Helen O'Connor, Michelle M. Ogrodnick, Richard Rothenberg, Michael P. Eriksen
Summary: Vulnerable refugee communities are disproportionately affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbating existing health inequities. Culturally and linguistically appropriate health communication is needed to dispel myths, stigma, misinformation, and disinformation. Supporting marginalized communities will require a multipronged, systemic approach to health communication, including creating local task forces, expanding English-language education for refugees, integrating refugee perspectives into risk communication messaging, improving cultural competence and health literacy training, and supporting community health workers.
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Ethics
Amara Sundus, Sharoon Shahzad, Ahtisham Younas
Summary: Transgender individuals face discrimination and insensitive attitudes in healthcare settings, highlighting the importance for healthcare professionals to be more self-aware and provide ethical and culturally sensitive care. However, there is a lack of in-depth research and discussion in the literature about this type of care, indicating the need for further studies and exploration.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Farah Nabil, Kira Grachev, Angel Gasch-Gallen, Anna Roses i Bello, El Hadji Mamadou Mbaye, Khady Gueye, Nicole Nkoum
Summary: Men who have sex with men (MSM) in Senegal face discrimination and marginalization due to widespread homophobia. This leads to higher levels of mental health issues among MSM compared to the general population. Healthcare providers are crucial in addressing the physical and psychological needs of MSM and a training program was designed to enhance their competence in providing psychosocial care. The program was found to be effective in increasing knowledge acquisition and reducing homophobia, with male providers and physicians performing better than their female counterparts.
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Immunology
Joseph Alexander Paguio, Bisola O. Ojikutu, Pia Gabrielle Alfonso, Jasper Seth Yao, Troy B. Amen, Edward Christopher Dee, Gerome Escota
Summary: This study explores the association between self-reported measures of culturally competent care and influenza vaccination rates in the United States. The findings suggest that individuals who experience culturally competent care, characterized by respect, clear communication, and cultural understanding, are more likely to receive the annual influenza vaccine. The study highlights the importance of evaluating vaccination outcomes among patients who receive culturally competent care.
Article
Nursing
Kathleen Markey, Brid O' Brien, Claire O' Donnell, Catherine Martin, Jill Murphy
Summary: With the aging global community and increasing socio-cultural diversity, nurse educators are facing challenges in aligning undergraduate nursing curricula with rapidly changing healthcare environments. To educate nurses in providing culturally competent person-centered care, it is important to critically examine and adapt undergraduate curricula.
NURSE EDUCATION IN PRACTICE
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Elisa J. Gordon, Jefferson J. Uriarte, Jungwha Lee, Raymong Kang, Michelle Shumate, Richard Ruiz, Amit K. Mathur, Daniela P. Ladner, Juan Carlos Caicedo
Summary: The study found that the Northwestern Medicine Hispanic Kidney Transplant Program successfully increased the likelihood of recipients receiving living donor kidney transplants, particularly at the intervention site with higher fidelity. For Hispanic recipients at intervention site A, the likelihood of receiving LDKTs significantly increased after the intervention, while there was no significant change in the paired control sites.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION
(2022)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Jessica McCann, Wing Man Lau, Andy Husband, Adam Todd, Laura Sile, Amandeep Kaur Doll, Sneha Varia, Anna Robinson-Barella
Summary: This study aims to gather perspectives of community pharmacy teams on cultural competence and identify possible approaches for the delivery of cultural competence training. The results offer new insights and suggestions for training community pharmacy staff, students, and trainees on cultural competence. Collaborative co-design approaches between patients and pharmacy staff could improve the design, implementation, and delivery of culturally competent pharmacy services.
HEALTH EXPECTATIONS
(2023)
