Measuring racial microaggression in medical practice

Autor: Amanda Lee Almond
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Ethnicity & Health. 24:589-606
ISSN: 1465-3419
1355-7858
DOI: 10.1080/13557858.2017.1359497
Popis: The purpose of this study was to validate the already existing Racial Microaggression in Counseling Scale (RMCS) when the term 'therapist' was replaced with 'physician', thus constituting the modification as the Racial Microaggression in Medical Practice Scale (RMMPS). Racial microaggressions work at reinforcing inferior social status on a cognitive level. Unlike overt racism, messages behind microaggression are subtler and more every day. A lack of acceptance, respect, and regard emerges from interactions in medical contexts as there are layers of in-group and out-group statuses at play (e.g. physician-patient, Black-White, expert-lay, and Westernized-alternative). The layer focused on in this study was that of race or skin color. A sample of racial minorities in the Northeast (
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