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Reducing Cultural Barriers: A Grounded Theory Approach to Nursing Student Attitudes After Multicultural Education

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Purpose: This study uses grounded theory to explore the process and conceptual framework of how nursing students' attitudes toward others and different cultures change after receiving education on multicultural understanding. Methods: This study used the Corbin and Strauss grounded theory throughout data collection and analysis. We used purposive sampling to select participants and then gathered data through in-depth interviews with 18 students who completed a multicultural understanding education course. Results: Two researchers conducted a comparative semantic analysis of the transcribed data, applying open, axial, and selective coding techniques. With the collected data, the two researchers exchanged opinions to categorize and structure the data according to the research questions. Through the analysis, open coding yielded 11 categories and 26 subcategories from 135 concepts. In a model that recombined nine categories through axial coding, the central phenomenon was "distance", while the core category was "perceive people from different cultures as others/accept with reduced distance". Conclusion: Since nursing students are more likely to care for patients from diverse cultural backgrounds in their future clinical practice, they must have specialized cultural knowledge.

Source: Risk Management and Healthcare Policy

DOI: 10.2147/rmhp.s480088

Authors: Myeongjeong Chae, Boyoung Kim

Institutions: Kwangju Women's University, Chonnam National University

Language: English

Topic: Cultural Competency in Health Care

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,836