Chen, Laurie and De Ochoa, Mayson and Martinez, Miranda (2021) Cultural competency and cultural humility training in occupational therapy programs: measuring student perspectives and the effectiveness of workshop interventions. Masters thesis, Stanbridge University.
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Abstract
Occupational therapy (OT) students can greatly benefit from cultural competency and humility education within their academic programs. This study measured the effectiveness of a 4-week educational workshop and analyzed the perspectives of OT students regarding culture-related education in their programs. Current OT and occupational therapy assistant (OTA) students in California volunteered to participate in the workshop on Zoom, in which information, activities, and discussions were presented to improve cultural competence/humility skills. The Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) was used as a pre- and posttest to measure five factors of intercultural sensitivity that affect interactions. The five subscales include interaction engagement, respect for cultural differences, interaction confidence, interaction enjoyment, and interaction attentiveness. Contrary to our hypothesis, the results of the ISS pre- and posttest score comparisons did not yield significant improvements with p-value ranging from .239 to 1.000 for each subscale. In addition to understanding their perspectives on their cultural education, other verbal and written responses about their experiences were collected. The common themes found were cultural factors that influence interactions with others, ways to improve working with other cultures, preparedness through academic program, helpful aspects of the workshop, and suggestions to improve the workshop. Our findings support current literature emphasizing the benefits of cultural competence and humility education for OT students in future practice with a multicultural client base. The limitations in the study contributed to recommendations for future studies, including improvements for recruitment and retention, offering incentives for participation, and obtaining a much larger and more educationally diverse sample of students.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Depositing User: | Institutional Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2022 21:18 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2022 21:18 |
| URI: | http://repository.stanbridge.edu/id/eprint/87 |
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