School of Nursing, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Graduate Institute of Gerontology and Health Care Management, Chang Gung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C..
Nurse Educ Today. 2020 May;88:104385. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2020.104385. Epub 2020 Mar 5.
The cultural competence education programme for health professionals aimed to ensure that all people receive effective health care, particularly those from culturally diverse backgrounds.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a cultural competence educational course on nurses' self-assessment of their cultural competence.
A single-blind, randomised control trial design was employed.
Eligible nurses were recruited from a northern Taiwan medical centre with 2089 beds.
A permuted block of four was used to randomly assign participants to the experimental (n = 47) and control groups (n = 50). The educational course comprised four units and was conducted once weekly for four weeks, with each session lasting 3 h.
A significant group-time interaction was identified regarding self-learning cultural ability, verifying the education intervention's effect on self-learning cultural ability after a two-month intervention. In addition, a significant main effect over time was discovered for total cultural competence; there was no significant interaction effect.
The study provided evidence that an educational programme effectively improved cultural competence in clinical nurses. The results provide a reference for health care providers to design in-service cultural competence education for improving quality of care.
面向卫生专业人员的文化能力培养计划旨在确保所有人都能获得有效的医疗保健，尤其是那些来自文化多元化背景的人。
本研究旨在调查文化能力教育课程对护士自我评估文化能力的影响。
采用单盲、随机对照试验设计。
在一家拥有 2089 张床位的台湾北部医疗中心招募符合条件的护士。
采用区组随机化方法将参与者随机分配到实验组（n=47）和对照组（n=50）。教育课程包括四个单元，每周进行一次，持续四周，每次 3 小时。
在自我学习文化能力方面，组间时间交互作用显著，证实了教育干预对两个月干预后自我学习文化能力的影响。此外，文化能力总分随时间的主效应显著；没有显著的交互效应。
该研究提供了证据表明，教育计划可有效提高临床护士的文化能力。研究结果为医疗保健提供者设计在职文化能力教育以提高护理质量提供了参考。
