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Abstract
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 < 0.05 were deemed statistically significant.
Results
A majority of respondents were females (61.4 %; n = 466). The levels of the constructs for CC ranged from high to very high except for Cultural Encounters which was moderate: Cultural Awareness (Mean = 3.43 SD = 0.56), Cultural Skills Mean = 3.65 SD = 0.65), Cultural Knowledge (Mean = 3.53 SD = 0.54), Cultural Encounters (Mean = 3.35 SD = 0.68), Cultural Desire (Mean = 3.49 SD = 0.68), and overall CC score (Mean = 3.49 SD = 0.46). Nurses’ Cultural Skills were inversely associated with traveling outside of Ghana.
Conclusion
Nurses self-rated overall cultural competence as high. However, moderate Cultural Encounters are concerning as Cultural Encounters are the pivotal construct of CC that provides the foundation for the nurses’ journey toward cultural competency. Modification in training is urgently required to increase opportunities for nurses to experience Cultural Encounters.
期刊介绍:
International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences (IJANS) is an international scientific journal published by Elsevier. The broad-based journal was founded on two key tenets, i.e. to publish the most exciting research with respect to the subjects of Nursing and Midwifery in Africa, and secondly, to advance the international understanding and development of nursing and midwifery in Africa, both as a profession and as an academic discipline. The fully refereed journal provides a forum for all aspects of nursing and midwifery sciences, especially new trends and advances. The journal call for original research papers, systematic and scholarly review articles, and critical papers which will stimulate debate on research, policy, theory or philosophy of nursing as related to nursing and midwifery in Africa, technical reports, and short communications, and which will meet the journal''s high academic and ethical standards. Manuscripts of nursing practice, education, management, and research are encouraged. The journal values critical scholarly debate on issues that have strategic significance for educators, practitioners, leaders and policy-makers of nursing and midwifery in Africa. The journal publishes the highest quality scholarly contributions reflecting the diversity of nursing, and is also inviting international scholars who are engaged with nursing and midwifery in Africa to contribute to the journal. We will only publish work that demonstrates the use of rigorous methodology as well as by publishing papers that highlight the theoretical underpinnings of nursing and midwifery as it relates to the Africa context.