Cross Cultural Exploration of the Perceived Health Competence Scale

Mental health - cultural competence.

BACKGROUND Depression, and its associated anxiety, is very common in the community and frequently managed in general practice. Yet it remains a problematic concept. Differing views of depression influence both clinical practice and research. OBJECTIVE This article discusses the way each patient's culture interacts with other important contexts of clinical practice to shape how depression is u...

Cross-Cultural Reliability of the Health Control & Competence Index and the Health Perception Index

The Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Smartphone Addiction Scale to Persian

Objectives: Various instruments and methods evaluate addiction to the Internet, mobile, and smartphone use. Subject-reported outcome measures, such as the smartphone addiction scale (SAS) assess such addiction. The objectives of this study were to cross-culturally adapt the SAS into Persian (SAS-Pr) and to evaluate the properties of reliability and validity in the Persian setting. Methods: The...

Transforming cultural competence into cross-cultural efficacy in women's health education.

To prepare students to be effective practitioners in an increasingly diverse United States, medical educators must design cross-cultural curricula, including curricula in women's health. One goal of such education is cultural competence, defined as a set of skills that allow individuals to increase their understanding of cultural differences and similarities within, among, and between groups. I...

Perceived levels of cultural competence among occupational therapists.

Occupational therapists confront issues of cultural diversity more than ever before because of the increased number of clients seen in their professional practice who are of differing racial or cultural backgrounds. In this study, we examine perceived cultural competence in a sample of 477 occupational therapists. The study's results indicate that among the variables that most affected how ther...