Peek Eun-Hee, Park Chai-Soon
Department of Nursing, Sahmyook Health University College, Seoul, Korea.
College of Nursing, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
J Korean Acad Nurs. 2013 Oct;43(5):690-6. doi: 10.4040/jkan.2013.43.5.690.
This study was done to examine the effects of a multicultural education program on nursing students' cultural competence, empathy, and self-efficacy.
In this quasi-experimental study, the participants were assigned to an experimental group (n=40) or a control group (n=40). The data were analyzed using independent t-test, Chi-square or Fisher's exact test, and paired t-test with the SPSS windows 18.0 program.
After receiving the multicultural education program, the levels of cultural competence and self-efficacy in the experimental group were higher than in the control group. The level of empathy increased slightly in the experimental group while it decreased in the control group.
The results of this study indicate that multicultural education is effective in raising the level of cultural competence and self-efficacy in nursing students. Thus, there is a need for continuous effort to integrate multicultural education programs in the nursing curriculum. Repeated study to test effects of these multicultural education programs should be also necessary.
本研究旨在探讨多元文化教育项目对护生文化能力、同理心和自我效能感的影响。
在这项准实验研究中，参与者被分为实验组（n = 40）和对照组（n = 40）。使用独立样本t检验、卡方检验或费舍尔精确检验以及SPSS 18.0版软件进行配对t检验来分析数据。
接受多元文化教育项目后，实验组的文化能力和自我效能感水平高于对照组。实验组的同理心水平略有提高，而对照组则有所下降。
本研究结果表明，多元文化教育在提高护生的文化能力和自我效能感水平方面是有效的。因此，有必要持续努力将多元文化教育项目纳入护理课程。对这些多元文化教育项目的效果进行重复研究也是必要的。
