In her article "Transcultural Literature and Dagnino argues that within the emerging field of transcultural literary studies and despite the inevitable issues raised by categorization, we may classify transcultural literature domain of world literature(s). Dagnino presents transcultural perspective in the fields of proceeds by outlining the main conto respect to (im)migrant and postcolonial lit...

The Journal of Transcultural Nursing, the TCNS, and SAGE have collaborated to publish a new concept in journals publishing, a Core Curriculum for Transcultural Nursing and Health Care. The Core Curriculum is the culmination of many years of research, drawing from the fields of social and behavioral science, philosophy, and nursing to establish a core of knowledge that supports transcultural nur...

OBJECTIVE Determining the effect of implementing a culturally-based educational program for caregivers working with the elderly in conditions of disability and poverty in a sector of Bogota, Colombia; perceived health, family functioning, caregiver burden and depression were the variables of interest. METHODS This was a quasi-experimental study, involving using pre-test and post-test;56 famil...

Objective To adapt, validate, and translate the Behavioral Inattention Test as an assessment tool for Spanish individuals with unilateral spatial neglect. Design A cross-sectional descriptive study. Setting University laboratories. Participants A sample of 75 Spanish stroke patients and 18 healthy control subjects. Interventions Not applicable. Main Outcome Measures The Behavioral Ina...

INTRODUCTION The specific diagnosis of toxic encephalopathy (TE) by chronic exposure to neurotoxics presents difficulties, mainly due to lack of consensus of clinical diagnostic criteria. The EUROQUEST (EQ) is a multicultural tool proposed for using in epidemiological studies on neurotoxicity. The aim of this study was to validate the Spanish version of this questionnaire for using as a diagnos...