William F. Connell School of Nursing Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Nurs Outlook. 2013 May-Jun;61(3):174-80. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2012.07.009. Epub 2012 Sep 10.
Nurse researchers need to be able to identify the race and ethnicity of participants in their studies for several reasons including addressing health disparities, ensuring adequate representation from under-represented minorities, and making sure other nurses can understand how findings may or may not pertain to their own patient population. However, obtaining accurate information about race and ethnicity requires careful attention to norms of study participants. Race and ethnicity are not always viewed as 2 separate constructs and the definition of both changes over time. In fact, a random sample of 100 patients in 1 hospital found an 11% discrepancy between patients' self-identification of race using 2 different methodologies of self-identification. To optimize accuracy of self-identification of race and ethnicity, this paper discusses techniques learned in practice and in the literature for improving self-identification of these 2 constructs.
护士研究人员需要能够识别研究参与者的种族和民族，原因包括解决健康差距、确保代表性不足的少数群体有足够的代表，以及确保其他护士能够理解研究结果是否与他们自己的患者群体有关。然而，要获得关于种族和民族的准确信息，需要仔细关注研究参与者的规范。种族和民族并不总是被视为两个独立的结构，而且两者的定义随着时间的推移而变化。事实上，在一家医院对 100 名随机患者进行的调查发现，使用两种不同的自我认同方法，患者自我认同的种族之间存在 11%的差异。为了提高种族和民族自我认同的准确性，本文讨论了在实践和文献中学习到的用于改善这两个结构自我认同的技术。
