School health professionals' understanding of culture: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Culture underpins social interaction between school health professionals and children. Both practice and research suggest that cultural variations, migration and intercultural interactions pose potential challenges in encounters between school health professionals and children and may relate to the health professionals' understanding of their own culture as a factor in such encounters. Still, for the school health services (SHS), reviews collating existing research on school health professionals' understanding of culture are lacking.

Objectives

This review aims to identify, describe and analyse existing research on school health professionals' (ie, school nurses, school social workers, school doctors and school psychologists) understanding of culture.

Design<

SUBMITTER: Wahlstrom E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306337 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature