Assessing cultural safety in general practice consultations for Indigenous patients: protocol for a mixed methods sequential embedded design study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessment of cultural safety in general practice consultations for Indigenous patients is a complex notion. Design and development of any assessment tool needs to be cognizant that cultural safety is determined by Indigenous peoples and incorporates defined components of cultural safety and current educational theory. Consideration of how social, historical, and political determinants of health and well-being impact upon the cultural safety of a consultation is also important. Given this complexity, we assume that no single method of assessment will be adequate to determine if general practice (GP) registrars are demonstrating or delivering culturally safe care. As such, we propose that development and assessment of cultural safety can be conceptualised using a model th

SUBMITTER: Brumpton K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10152729 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature