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- Title
The patient-reported Clinicians' Cultural Sensitivity Survey: a field test among older Latino primary care patients.
- Authors
Nápoles, Anna M.; Santoyo‐Olsson, Jasmine; Farren, Georgianna; Olmstead, Jill; Cabral, Ruben; Ross, Barry; Gregorich, Steven E.; Stewart, Anita L.
- 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 Validity and reliability of cultural sensitivity measures. Results Twenty-nine of 35 items measuring 14 constructs were retained. Eleven measures assessed sensitivity issues relevant to all participants: complementary and alternative medicine, mind-body connections, causal attributions, preventive care, family involvement, modesty, prescription medications, spirituality, physician discrimination due to education, physician discrimination due to race/ethnicity and staff discrimination due to race/ethnicity. Three measures were group specific: two to limited English proficient patients ( sensitivity to language needs and discrimination due to language) and one to immigrants ( sensitivity to immigrant status). Twelve multi-item scales demonstrated adequate reliability (alpha ≥0.68 except for Spanish discrimination due to education) and evidence of construct validity (item-scale correlations for all scales >0.40 except for sensitivity to immigrant status). Two single-item measures demonstrated sufficient construct validity to retain for further development. Discussion and conclusions The Clinicians' Cultural Sensitivity Survey can be used to assess the quality of care of older Latino patients.
- Subjects
CALIFORNIA; PATIENT satisfaction; FIELD research; ATTRIBUTION (Social psychology); CANCER; CHI-squared test; CONCEPTUAL structures; STATISTICAL correlation; EXPERIMENTAL design; FACTOR analysis; HISPANIC Americans; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL quality control; MEDICAL screening; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; PROBABILITY theory; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY assurance; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH evaluation; RESEARCH funding; SCALE analysis (Psychology); TELEPHONES; CULTURAL awareness; CULTURAL competence; CROSS-sectional method; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Health Expectations, 2012, Vol 15, Issue 1, p63
- ISSN
1369-6513
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00654.x