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Research Article: Cultural competence among Swedish child health nurses after specific training: A randomized trial
Author(s) -
Berlin Anita,
Nilsson Gunnar,
Törnkvist Lena
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
nursing and health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.563
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1442-2018
pISSN - 1441-0745
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-2018.2010.00542.x
Subject(s) - cultural competence , competence (human resources) , nursing , medicine , randomized controlled trial , immigration , health care , psychology , family medicine , social psychology , pedagogy , surgery , archaeology , economics , history , economic growth
An urgent need to improve Swedish primary child health‐care nurses' cultural competence was revealed by previous research among nurses working in, and immigrant parents visiting, primary child health‐care services. The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent to which specific training affected how nurses rated their own cultural competence, difficulties, and concerns and to study how the nurses evaluated the training. Conducted as a randomized controlled trial, the effects on a study sample of 51 nurses were assessed by questionnaires in a pre‐ and post‐study design. The findings indicated that the 3 days of training were appreciated by the nurses and had some effects on their cultural competence, difficulties, and concerns. The training might have had positive effects on the nurses' working conditions as they rated it to have an impact on their ability to cope with the demands of their work activities in the health services. These effects are presumed to contribute to an improved quality of the health services, with a reduction in the risk for health‐care disparities among children of immigrant parents.