Cultural competency of Nurses in a Multi-Cultural Healthcare System in Two Regions of Ghana

Autor: Abdul-Karim Abubakari, Janet Gross, Seth Kofi Boateng, Rockson Ansong
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, Vol 20, Iss , Pp 100728- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2214-1391
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijans.2024.100728
Popis: Background: Cultural competency (CC) is imperative in Ghana where a growing multicultural society prevails. Despite Ghana’s increasing multicultural society, cultural competency is poorly understood or appreciated. Purpose: The study aimed to determine the self-assessed CC of nurses from the Western and Ashanti Regions’ using the validated Central Vancouver Island Multicultural Society’s Cultural Competence checklist. Method: From October to December 2022, an institutional-based cross-sectional study in eight hospitals involving nurses was conducted using a two-stage sampling technique. Simple random sampling and stratified proportional sampling techniques were deployed to select the study hospitals and 759 participants respectively. Data were entered into a spreadsheet and exported to S.P.S.S version 23. Binary and multivariable logistic regressions were used to establish the associations between dependent and independent variables. Outcome variables with a P-value
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