Nursing students' cultural competence in caring for older people in a multicultural and developing region

Nurse Education Today
Yanru WangAyiguli Yasheng

Abstract

Health disparities exist among different cultural groups in a multicultural society. Older people from minority groups usually face greater challenges in accessing and utilizing healthcare services due to language barriers, low levels of health literacy and cognitive impairment. The aims of this study were to measure nursing students' cultural competence in the context of caring for older people from diverse cultural backgrounds and explore associated factors affecting their cultural competence in order to inform curriculum design in Xinjiang, China. A cross-sectional study design. The study was undertaken in the School of Nursing, Xinjiang Medical University, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China. Students enrolled in a 4-year Bachelor of Nursing Program. Students' cultural competence was measured using a validated Chinese version of Cross-cultural Care Questionnaire. Data were collected using a self-administered survey. The number of students in the survey was 677. Of those students, 59.5% of them were from an ethnic group other than Han Chinese. A higher proportion of students from ethnic groups, other than Han Chinese, were able to fluently speak a language other than Chinese and used this language in their study and dail...Continue Reading

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