Evaluation of a Virtual Health Equity Training for Mid-Career Primary Healthcare Providers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Providing cultural competence training is recommended as a way to improve patient-centered care and reduce health disparities. Increasing awareness of implicit biases and understanding internal motivations for overcoming these biases can influence provider decisions and communications with patients. This study aims to provide a health equity and implicit bias training to healthcare providers and assess knowledge and attitude gains.

Methods

Mid-career primary healthcare providers (n = 21) with at least 5 years of primary care experience participated in the training as a prerequisite for providing patient care in a telehealth primary care practice that overwhelmingly serves patients of color.

Results

There was a significant increase in knowledge (p < .

SUBMITTER: Roberts KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10729640 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature