Randomized controlled trial demonstrates novel tools to assess patient outcomes of Indigenous cultural safety training.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health care routinely fails Indigenous peoples and anti-Indigenous racism is common in clinical encounters. Clinical training programs aimed to enhance Indigenous cultural safety (ICS) rely on learner reported impact assessment even though clinician self-assessment is poorly correlated with observational or patient outcome reporting. We aimed to compare the clinical impacts of intensive and brief ICS training to control, and to assess the feasibility of ICS training evaluation tools, including unannounced Indigenous standardized patient (UISP) visits.

Method

Using a prospective parallel group three-arm randomized controlled trial design and masked standardized patients, we compared the clinical impacts of the intensive interactive, professionally facilitated, 8- t

SUBMITTER: Smylie J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10775432 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature