The Cross-Cultural Competence Inventory: Validity and psychometric properties of the Polish adaptation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to changes in Polish society resulting from a significant inflow of immigrants to Poland, the need to develop the cultural competences of various professional groups who have contact with immigrants in their work has increased. These groups should include healthcare professionals, especially because of the significant increase in the number of culturally diverse patients. Therefore, medical education in Poland has had to rapidly adapt to this novel situation. For instance, the teaching process should be now more focused on the development and evaluation of the cultural competences of prospective health care workers. However, there is still a lack of standardized, valid and reliable instruments to assess cross-cultural competences among healthcare professionals. The p

SUBMITTER: Barzykowski K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6405162 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature