기사
Risk Factors for Reporting Poor Cultural Competency Among Patients With Diabetes in Safety Net Clinics
- 개인저자
- Seligman, Hilary K. MD, MAS
- 수록페이지
- S56–S61 p.
- 발행일자
- 2012.09.20
- 출판사
- Lippincott
초록
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 relationship with primary care provider, and comorbidities.
Results: In adjusted models, depressive symptoms were significantly associated with poor cultural competency in the Doctor Communication—Positive Behaviors domain [odds ratio (OR) 1.73, 95% confidence interval, 1.11–2.69]. African Americans were less likely than whites to report poor cultural competence in the Doctor Communication—Positive Behaviors domain (OR 0.52, 95% CI, 0.28–0.97). Participants who reported a longer relationship (≥3 y) with their primary care provider were less likely to report poor cultural competence in the Doctor Communication—Health Promotion (OR 0.35, 95% CI, 0.21–0.60) and Trust domains (OR 0.4, 95% CI, 0.24–0.67), whereas participants with lower educational attainment were less likely to report poor cultural competence in the Trust domain (OR 0.51, 95% CI, 0.30–0.86). Overall, however, sociodemographic and clinical differences in reports of poor cultural competence were insignificant or inconsistent across the various domains of cultural competence examined.
Conclusions: Cultural competence interventions in safety-net settings should be implemented across populations, rather than being narrowly focused on specific sociodemographic or clinical groups.