The patient-reported Clinicians' Cultural Sensitivity Survey: a field test among older Latino primary care patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient-reported measures of clinicians' cultural sensitivity are important to assess comprehensively quality of care among ethnically diverse patients and may help address persistent health inequities.

Objective

Create a patient-reported, multidimensional survey of clinicians' cultural sensitivity to cultural factors affecting quality of care.

Design

Using a comprehensive conceptual framework, items were written and field-tested in a cross-sectional telephone survey. Multitrait scaling and factor analyses were used to develop measures.

Setting and participants

Latino patients age ≥50 from primary care practices in California.

Main variables studied

Thirty-five items hypothesized to assess clinicians' sensitivity.

Main outcomes measures

SUBMITTER: Napoles AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3570254 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature