Page 196 - S. Ličen, I. Karnjuš, & M. Prosen (Eds.). (2019). Women, migrations and health: Ensuring transcultural healthcare. Koper, University of Primorska Press.
P. 196
bara Donik, Mateja Lorber, and Majda Pajnkihar
community settings. It is important to investigate in further research how
effective those strategies are. Cultural competence can be increased by in-
cluding structured cultural content in the nursing curricula (Sargent, Sedlak,
& Martsolf, 2005).
In our study, the results didn’t vary between age, level of nursing program,
way of study and year of study. Safipour, Hadziabdic, Hultsjö, and Bachrach-
Lindström (2017) also find out an insignificant correlation between demo-
graphic variables and the level of cultural awareness. In comparison between
female nursing students and male nursing students, the results showed sta-
tistically significant higher scores accessed by female students in one dimen-
sion: ‘Behaviors/Comfort with Interactions.’ This can be explained by the re-
sults of the study (Parlar Kılıç & Sevinç, 2018) that female students are more
sensitive toward cultural differences, have more positive attitudes toward
cultural factors, and that they feel more responsible than male students. Also,
Yilmaz, Toksoy, Denizci Direk, Bezirgan, and Boylu (2016) find out, that female
scored the determinant: respect for cultural differences higher than male.
Testing the inter-correlation between dimensions was important due to
investigate how some dimensions vary between. We can conclude that in-
teresting inter-correlations were found. The negative correlation between
Cognitive awareness and Behaviors/Comfort was identified. Positive corre-
lation between ‘General Education Experience’ and ‘Patient Care/Clinical Is-
sues’ was identified. There is also a moderate correlation between the di-
mension: ‘Cognitive Awareness’ and ‘Patient Care/Clinical Issues. Hadziabdic,
Safipour, Bachrach-Lindström, and Hultsjö (2016) report the negative inter-
correlation between those dimensions.
However, there are some limitation of this study that can be outlined. In
this research, the number of male participants, 1st year undergraduate nurs-
ing students and postgraduate nursing students is smaller, therefore the re-
sults must be interpreted wit conscious. Also, due to small sample there was
impossible to measure the relation between demographic variables such as
ethnicity and language that participants speak at home with cultural aware-
ness score. The nature of research was quantitative, therefore the results can’t
provide the impact of some variables that can increase cultural awareness of
nursing students.
Conclusions
Culture is having a huge impact on peoples every day live. During under-
graduate or postgraduate nursing education, students must achieve an ad-
equate level of competences, also cultural competences. Concept of culture
194
community settings. It is important to investigate in further research how
effective those strategies are. Cultural competence can be increased by in-
cluding structured cultural content in the nursing curricula (Sargent, Sedlak,
& Martsolf, 2005).
In our study, the results didn’t vary between age, level of nursing program,
way of study and year of study. Safipour, Hadziabdic, Hultsjö, and Bachrach-
Lindström (2017) also find out an insignificant correlation between demo-
graphic variables and the level of cultural awareness. In comparison between
female nursing students and male nursing students, the results showed sta-
tistically significant higher scores accessed by female students in one dimen-
sion: ‘Behaviors/Comfort with Interactions.’ This can be explained by the re-
sults of the study (Parlar Kılıç & Sevinç, 2018) that female students are more
sensitive toward cultural differences, have more positive attitudes toward
cultural factors, and that they feel more responsible than male students. Also,
Yilmaz, Toksoy, Denizci Direk, Bezirgan, and Boylu (2016) find out, that female
scored the determinant: respect for cultural differences higher than male.
Testing the inter-correlation between dimensions was important due to
investigate how some dimensions vary between. We can conclude that in-
teresting inter-correlations were found. The negative correlation between
Cognitive awareness and Behaviors/Comfort was identified. Positive corre-
lation between ‘General Education Experience’ and ‘Patient Care/Clinical Is-
sues’ was identified. There is also a moderate correlation between the di-
mension: ‘Cognitive Awareness’ and ‘Patient Care/Clinical Issues. Hadziabdic,
Safipour, Bachrach-Lindström, and Hultsjö (2016) report the negative inter-
correlation between those dimensions.
However, there are some limitation of this study that can be outlined. In
this research, the number of male participants, 1st year undergraduate nurs-
ing students and postgraduate nursing students is smaller, therefore the re-
sults must be interpreted wit conscious. Also, due to small sample there was
impossible to measure the relation between demographic variables such as
ethnicity and language that participants speak at home with cultural aware-
ness score. The nature of research was quantitative, therefore the results can’t
provide the impact of some variables that can increase cultural awareness of
nursing students.
Conclusions
Culture is having a huge impact on peoples every day live. During under-
graduate or postgraduate nursing education, students must achieve an ad-
equate level of competences, also cultural competences. Concept of culture
194
