Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China.
Prim Health Care Res Dev. 2023 May 26;24:e40. doi: 10.1017/S1463423623000245.
Cultural competence training plays an effective role in improving cultural competence for healthcare professionals, but cultural competence training was found to be insufficient in Hong Kong.
This study aims to explore receptivity and readiness of Hong Kong healthcare professionals (nurses, occupational therapists (OTs), and physiotherapists (PTs)) towards cultural competence training.
Twenty-three semi-structured interviews were conducted with 7 educators/trainers from tertiary institutions, 2 representatives of professional groups, and 14 managerial and frontline workers. Data were analysed using theoretical thematic analysis.
Results show that nurses and PTs have lower levels of cultural competence than OTs owing to insufficient in-depth training and the nature of professional practice, and they expressed lower willingness to receive the training than OTs. However, the staff in these three professions encounter various challenges in serving ethnoculturally diverse groups. Therefore, barriers in receiving cultural competence training and best practice for providing cultural competence training were identified and discussed for these three professions.
文化能力培训对提高医疗保健专业人员的文化能力具有积极作用，但在香港，文化能力培训被发现不足。
本研究旨在探讨香港医疗保健专业人员（护士、职业治疗师和物理治疗师）对文化能力培训的接受程度和准备情况。
对来自高等院校的 7 名教育者/培训师、2 名专业团体代表和 14 名管理和一线工作人员进行了 23 次半结构化访谈。采用理论主题分析对数据进行分析。
结果表明，由于培训深度不足和专业实践性质的原因，护士和物理治疗师的文化能力水平低于职业治疗师，他们表示比职业治疗师更不愿意接受培训。然而，这三个专业的员工在为不同种族文化群体提供服务时都遇到了各种挑战。因此，确定了这三个专业在接受文化能力培训方面的障碍和提供文化能力培训的最佳实践，并进行了讨论。
