Culturally Competent Scholarship in Nursing Research

Jacobson, Sharol F.; Chu, Nancy L.; Pascucci, Mary Ann; Gaskins, Susan

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“…The incorporation of such culturally responsive research practices with language minorities has the potential to enhance trust and, thus, improve the recruitment and retention of language minorities. In addition, the inclusion of culturally responsive criteria throughout the research process may generate results with improved validity (Jacobson et al, 2005) and, thus, further the knowledge base regarding language minorities. More important, the advancement of research with language minorities is an important step toward the improvement of health and social services access and quality of care among this group.…”

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“…To our knowledge, Meleis's framework (1996) is one of the few that has integrated the concept of cultural competence into research methods. The framework has been used to evaluate culturally competent knowledge development (Mendias & Guevara, 2001), culturally specific measurements (Im, Meleis, & Lee, 1999), and the evaluation of the rigor and credibility of research with diverse populations (Jacobson, Chu, Pascucci, & Gaskins, 2005;Mill & Ogilvie, 2003;Saltus, 2006). Although Meleis developed these criteria for nursing scholars, we believe them to be valid for culturally competent social work research because they focus on values relevant to social work practice, such as awareness of power differences and empowerment perspectives.…”

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Culturally Competent Social Work Research: Methodological Considerations for Research with Language Minorities

2012

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Despite the growing number of language minorities, foreign-born individuals with limited English proficiency, this population has been largely left out of social work research, often due to methodological challenges involved in conducting research with this population. Whereas the professional standard calls for cultural competence, a discussion of how to implement strategies for culturally competent research with language minorities is regrettably limited in the social work literature. This article is, to the authors' knowledge, one of the first within the field of social work to tie together unique methodological issues that may arise throughout the research conceptualization, development, and implementation process with this population. Strategies for how to overcome such issues are provided by adapting and expanding on a conceptual framework by Meleis. The incorporation of such research practices with language minorities has the potential to enhance trust and, thus, improve the recruitment and retention of this hard-to-reach population. More important, studies that aim to include such culturally responsive criteria may produce results that have improved validity and, thus, contribute to the advancement of knowledge regarding this population.

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Culturally Competent Social Work Research: Methodological Considerations for Research with Language Minorities

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“…Providers need to learn more about folk care practices, including voodoo, to determine what is being used to treat the current illness, and plan care accordingly to include these practices. Jacobson, Chu, Pascucci and Gaskins (2005), report that cultural competence requires willingness and skills to adapt and negotiate policies and procedures to the mutual satisfaction of the health professional and the care recipient. Yurkovich, Clairmont & Grandbois (2002) concur that cultural responsiveness requires a person to create culturally congruent care through collaboration with clients.…”

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Health-Related Beliefs, Practices, and Experiences of Migrant Dominicans in the Northeastern United States

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2018

J Transcult Nurs

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Introduction: The purpose of this study was to describe cultural health beliefs, practices, and experiences with professional health care in the United States by migrants from the Dominican Republic because their practices are largely unknown to professional providers. Method: A qualitative descriptive design was used, guided by Leininger’s culture care theory and four-phase analysis method with a convenience sample of 15 self-identified migrant Dominican adults in three interpreter-assisted focus groups, in a familiar apartment. Results: The following four themes emerged: Stress affects health and well-being, family support and faith in God are essential, use of folk care and professional care to treat illness and maintain health, and access to care, cost, communication and expressions of caring practices affect perceptions about the quality of professional care. Discussion: Results informed development of specific strategies to provide culturally responsive care and risk-reduction interventions that promote health and improve quality of care in the Dominican community.

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“…Jacobson et al (2005) suggested agreement in the nursing literature that cultural competence is multidimensional. It is learned and incorporates self-awareness through which judgments about cultural differences are filtered.…”

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Challenges and Approaches to Newcomer Health Research

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Newcomers include immigrants, refugees, or asylum seekers. Approaches to research in newcomer populations include consideration of the insider-outsider status of the researcher(s), sample selection and recruitment strategies, and attention to language barriers. Potential research participants need to be identified, approached, and made to feel safe before, during, and after participation in research. Interpersonal relationships need to be negotiated with awareness of potential power imbalances, institutional discrimination, and trauma associated with premigration, migration, and settlement experiences. Embedded within these approaches should be awareness of the need to ensure the cultural safety of research participants through implementation of culturally competent research strategies.

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Culturally Competent Scholarship in Nursing Research

Abstract: Assignment of Meleis scores is feasible and useful for evaluating cultural competence of research reports.

Cited by 10 publications

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Culturally Competent Social Work Research: Methodological Considerations for Research with Language Minorities

Culturally Competent Social Work Research: Methodological Considerations for Research with Language Minorities

Health-Related Beliefs, Practices, and Experiences of Migrant Dominicans in the Northeastern United States

Challenges and Approaches to Newcomer Health Research

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