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Cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: The increasing cultural diversity in healthcare in European countries, including Austria, has highlighted the need to enhance nurses’ cultural competence. Assessing cultural competence and identifying relevant influencing factors can help to improve culturally competent care. The aim of...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9890795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36726095 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09103-5 |
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author | Osmancevic, Selvedina Großschädl, Franziska Lohrmann, Christa |
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description | BACKGROUND: The increasing cultural diversity in healthcare in European countries, including Austria, has highlighted the need to enhance nurses’ cultural competence. Assessing cultural competence and identifying relevant influencing factors can help to improve culturally competent care. The aim of this study was to assess the cultural competence of nurses and nursing students working in Austrian acute care settings and to identify influencing factors using the Cultural Competence Assessment scale. METHODS: A cross-sectional design was used. Data collection was carried out in March 2021 with nurses and nursing students in the last year of their studies who were working in Austrian acute care settings. Descriptive analysis was applied to display the general characteristics of the study participants and the levels of their overall cultural competence. A multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to analyze the influencing factors of cultural competence. RESULTS: The nurses’ cultural competence level was moderate to high (mean = 3.89; SD = .48). Their age, educational level, cultural diversity training and self-perceived cultural competence significantly influenced the level (F (6, 875) = 18.971, p < .0000, adj. R2 = 1.09). CONCLUSIONS: Providing culturally competent healthcare services for culturally diverse patients is essential for all healthcare professionals, and especially for nurses who spend the most time with patients. Effective interventions, such as educational training, need to be implemented in order to deliver culturally competent care and potentially reduce disparities in healthcare and improve patient outcomes. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-023-09103-5. |
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spelling | pubmed-98907952023-02-02 Cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study Osmancevic, Selvedina Großschädl, Franziska Lohrmann, Christa BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND: The increasing cultural diversity in healthcare in European countries, including Austria, has highlighted the need to enhance nurses’ cultural competence. Assessing cultural competence and identifying relevant influencing factors can help to improve culturally competent care. The aim of this study was to assess the cultural competence of nurses and nursing students working in Austrian acute care settings and to identify influencing factors using the Cultural Competence Assessment scale. METHODS: A cross-sectional design was used. Data collection was carried out in March 2021 with nurses and nursing students in the last year of their studies who were working in Austrian acute care settings. Descriptive analysis was applied to display the general characteristics of the study participants and the levels of their overall cultural competence. A multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to analyze the influencing factors of cultural competence. RESULTS: The nurses’ cultural competence level was moderate to high (mean = 3.89; SD = .48). Their age, educational level, cultural diversity training and self-perceived cultural competence significantly influenced the level (F (6, 875) = 18.971, p < .0000, adj. R2 = 1.09). CONCLUSIONS: Providing culturally competent healthcare services for culturally diverse patients is essential for all healthcare professionals, and especially for nurses who spend the most time with patients. Effective interventions, such as educational training, need to be implemented in order to deliver culturally competent care and potentially reduce disparities in healthcare and improve patient outcomes. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12913-023-09103-5. BioMed Central 2023-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC9890795/ /pubmed/36726095 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09103-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://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. |
spellingShingle | Research Osmancevic, Selvedina Großschädl, Franziska Lohrmann, Christa Cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study |
title | Cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | cultural competence among nursing students and nurses working in acute care settings: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9890795/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36726095 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09103-5 |
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