Cultural Competence of Nursing Students After Their First Supervised Internships: An International Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To assess the level of cultural competence among European nursing students after their first clinical experience.

Design

A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in 18 countries and 66 higher institutions with a sample of 2932 nursing students.

Methods

The Cultural Competence Assessment (CCA) tool was used in its original version (English) and its validated versions in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Lithuanian. The CCA includes 25 items, Likert-type normalized in a 0-100-point scale with two dimensions: Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity (CAS) subscale and Cultural Competence Behavior (CCB) subscale. An online anonymized questionnaire was used to collect the variables. The influence of background and acquired factors in CCA was analyzed with

SUBMITTER: Visiers-Jimenez L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12309342 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature