Kumlien Christine, Bish Melanie, Chan Engle A, Rew Lynn, Chan P S, Leung Doris, Carlson Elisabeth
Department of Care Science, Malmö University, Jan Waldenströms gata 25, 20506, Malmö, Sweden.
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
BMC Med Educ. 2020 Nov 6;20(1):406. doi: 10.1186/s12909-020-02326-8.
Cultural awareness and cultural competence have become important skills in higher education as populations continue to grow in diversity around the world. However, currently, there are few instruments designed to assess student awareness of the aspects of culture, and the existing instruments need further development and testing for use with different target populations. Therefore, the aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of a modified version of the Cultural Awareness Scale (CAS) for use in higher education within the health and social care fields.
A modified version of the CAS was developed, which was tested psychometrically using cross-sectional data. In total, 191 undergraduate students from different health and social care undergraduate programs in Sweden and Hong Kong responded to a call to test the modified instrument.
The results showed that the modified CAS is a four-factor measure of cultural awareness and possesses satisfactory internal consistency. Results also support the use of the modified CAS as a generic tool to measure cultural awareness among students in higher education within the health and social care fields.
The modified CAS showed satisfactory psychometric properties and can be recommended as a generic tool to measure cultural awareness among students in higher education within the health and social care fields. However, further psychometric testing on the effectiveness of the modified CAS as a tool to evaluate the efficacy of cultural awareness interventions is required.
随着全球人口多样性持续增加，文化意识和文化能力已成为高等教育中的重要技能。然而，目前专门用于评估学生文化方面意识的工具较少，现有的工具需要进一步开发和测试，以适用于不同的目标人群。因此，本研究的目的是测试用于健康和社会护理领域高等教育的文化意识量表（CAS）修订版的心理测量特性。
开发了CAS修订版，并使用横断面数据对其进行心理测量测试。来自瑞典和香港不同健康和社会护理本科专业的191名本科生响应了测试修订工具的号召。
结果表明，修订后的CAS是一种文化意识的四因素测量工具，具有令人满意的内部一致性。结果还支持将修订后的CAS用作衡量健康和社会护理领域高等教育学生文化意识的通用工具。
修订后的CAS显示出令人满意的心理测量特性，可推荐作为衡量健康和社会护理领域高等教育学生文化意识的通用工具。然而，需要对修订后的CAS作为评估文化意识干预效果的工具的有效性进行进一步的心理测量测试。
