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Psychometric properties of a modified cultural awareness scale for use in higher education within the health and social care fields

BACKGROUND: Cultural awareness and cultural competence have become important skills in higher education as populations continue to grow in diversity around the world. However, currently, there are few instruments designed to assess student awareness of the aspects of culture, and the existing instru...

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Autores principales: Kumlien, Christine, Bish, Melanie, Chan, Engle A., Rew, Lynn, Chan, P. S., Leung, Doris, Carlson, Elisabeth
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7648285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33158446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02326-8
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author Kumlien, Christine
Bish, Melanie
Chan, Engle A.
Rew, Lynn
Chan, P. S.
Leung, Doris
Carlson, Elisabeth
author_facet Kumlien, Christine
Bish, Melanie
Chan, Engle A.
Rew, Lynn
Chan, P. S.
Leung, Doris
Carlson, Elisabeth
author_sort Kumlien, Christine
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description BACKGROUND: Cultural awareness and cultural competence have become important skills in higher education as populations continue to grow in diversity around the world. However, currently, there are few instruments designed to assess student awareness of the aspects of culture, and the existing instruments need further development and testing for use with different target populations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a modified version of the Cultural Awareness Scale (CAS) for use in higher education within the health and social care fields. METHODS: A modified version of the CAS was developed, which was tested psychometrically using cross-sectional data. In total, 191 undergraduate students from different health and social care undergraduate programs in Sweden and Hong Kong responded to a call to test the modified instrument. RESULTS: The results showed that the modified CAS is a four-factor measure of cultural awareness and possesses satisfactory internal consistency. Results also support the use of the modified CAS as a generic tool to measure cultural awareness among students in higher education within the health and social care fields. CONCLUSION: The modified CAS showed satisfactory psychometric properties and can be recommended as a generic tool to measure cultural awareness among students in higher education within the health and social care fields. However, further psychometric testing on the effectiveness of the modified CAS as a tool to evaluate the efficacy of cultural awareness interventions is required.
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spelling pubmed-76482852020-11-09 Psychometric properties of a modified cultural awareness scale for use in higher education within the health and social care fields Kumlien, Christine Bish, Melanie Chan, Engle A. Rew, Lynn Chan, P. S. Leung, Doris Carlson, Elisabeth BMC Med Educ Technical Advance BACKGROUND: Cultural awareness and cultural competence have become important skills in higher education as populations continue to grow in diversity around the world. However, currently, there are few instruments designed to assess student awareness of the aspects of culture, and the existing instruments need further development and testing for use with different target populations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a modified version of the Cultural Awareness Scale (CAS) for use in higher education within the health and social care fields. METHODS: A modified version of the CAS was developed, which was tested psychometrically using cross-sectional data. In total, 191 undergraduate students from different health and social care undergraduate programs in Sweden and Hong Kong responded to a call to test the modified instrument. RESULTS: The results showed that the modified CAS is a four-factor measure of cultural awareness and possesses satisfactory internal consistency. Results also support the use of the modified CAS as a generic tool to measure cultural awareness among students in higher education within the health and social care fields. CONCLUSION: The modified CAS showed satisfactory psychometric properties and can be recommended as a generic tool to measure cultural awareness among students in higher education within the health and social care fields. However, further psychometric testing on the effectiveness of the modified CAS as a tool to evaluate the efficacy of cultural awareness interventions is required. BioMed Central 2020-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7648285/ /pubmed/33158446 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02326-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Rew, Lynn
Chan, P. S.
Leung, Doris
Carlson, Elisabeth
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title Psychometric properties of a modified cultural awareness scale for use in higher education within the health and social care fields
title_full Psychometric properties of a modified cultural awareness scale for use in higher education within the health and social care fields
title_fullStr Psychometric properties of a modified cultural awareness scale for use in higher education within the health and social care fields
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title_short Psychometric properties of a modified cultural awareness scale for use in higher education within the health and social care fields
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7648285/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33158446
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02326-8
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