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Cultural competence techniques, introduced singly or in combination, could change clinician and patient behavior by improving communication, increasing trust, improving racially or ethnically specific knowledge of epidemiology and treatment efficacy, and expanding understanding of patients’ cultural behaviors and environment.
KQ 1: What models have been used to conceptualize cultural competence and culturally appropriate care in health contexts, and how do those models compare? KQ 2: What is the effectiveness of interventions to improve culturally appropriate care for LGBT adolescents (ages 13-17), young adults (18-25), and adults?
Aug 15, 2024 · Reduce Health Disparities: Cultural competence helps address health disparities by ensuring that all patients receive appropriate and sensitive care, regardless of their cultural background. This can lead to more equitable health outcomes and reduce the gap in healthcare access and quality.
- Definitions of Culture, Cultural Difference and Cultural Competence
- Intervention Strategies
- Study Quality
- Intervention Outcomes
- Measures
Across all included studies, none provided a definition of culture and only three provided a definition of cultural competence [38,39,40]. Although sharing some commonalities, all three definitions of cultural competence were distinct. There were also dissimilarities in the primary cultural differences discussed across studies which justified the n...
Across the included studies, diverse intervention strategies were used to address cultural competence at the workforce level. The two primary workforce strategies were cultural competency training interventions and professional development interventions aimed at improving the cultural competence of health services and practitioners. There was a sig...
When assessing for study quality, ten of the 16 studies were found to be weak (63%), four moderate (25%) [38, 41, 47, 50] and two strong [43, 49].
The primary outcome measures reported in the reviewed cultural competency workforce development intervention evaluations were health practitioner knowledge (9/16) [38, 40,41,42, 44,45,46,47, 51], attitudes/beliefs (5/16) [38, 45, 48, 51, 52], skills (7/16) [39, 42, 45,46,47, 51, 52], behaviour (4/16) [39, 49, 52, 53], and confidence (5/16) [39, 41,...
There was significant diversity in the measurement tools used across studies to measure changes in cultural competence, with no studies using the same measurement tool. Seven studies measured practitioner cultural competence using a measurement instrument. Of these seven, four used validated measurement instruments [38, 40, 48, 52]. One study used ...
- Crystal Jongen, Janya McCalman, Roxanne Bainbridge
- 2018
Mar 3, 2014 · Cultural competency is a broad concept used to describe a variety of interventions that aim to improve the accessibility and effectiveness of health care services for people from racial/ethnic minorities.
This review's main focus is on whether cultural competency interventions change health care providers' behaviors (such as communication and clinical decisionmaking), the patient-provider relationship, and/or clinical systems to ultimately result in better outcomes.
