Risk factors for reporting poor cultural competency among patients with diabetes in safety net clinics.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Cultural Competency Item Set assesses patient perceptions of aspects of the cultural competence of their health care.

Objective

To determine characteristics of patients who identify the care they receive as less culturally competent.

Research design

Cross-sectional survey consisting of face-to-face interviews.

Subjects

Safety-net population of patients with type 2 diabetes (n=600) receiving ongoing primary care.

Measures

Participants completed the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Cultural Competency and answered questions about their race/ethnicity, sex, age, education, health status, depressive symptoms, insurance coverage, English proficiency, duration of rela

SUBMITTER: Seligman HK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3466108 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature