Health workforce cultural competency interventions: a systematic scoping review.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Addressing health workforce cultural competence is a common approach to improving health service quality for culturally and ethnically diverse groups. Research evidence in this area is primarily focused on cultural competency training and its effects on practitioners' knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviour. While improvements in measures of healthcare practitioner cultural competency and other healthcare outcomes have been reported, there are concerns around evidence strength and quality. This scoping review reports on the intervention strategies, outcomes, and measures of included studies with the purpose of informing the implementation and evaluation of future interventions to improve health workforce cultural competence. METHODS:This systematic scoping review was complete

SUBMITTER: Jongen C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5879833 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature