Determination of Intercultural Sensitivity Among Nurses
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Determination of Intercultural Sensitivity Among Nurses Betül Aktaş1 · Türkan Pasinlioğlu1 · Meryem Kılıç1 · Ayşegül Özaslan2
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Abstract This descriptive study was carried out between July 2017 and August 2017 in an Obstetrics/Gynecology and Children Hospital affiliated to Gaziantep provincial directorate of health. The study population consisted of 363 nurses working in the aforementioned Obstetrics/Gynecology and Children Hospital, and the non-probability sampling method was implemented to reach them. Of the nurses included in the study population, 183 who volunteered to participate in the study comprised the sample of the study. The data were collected from the nurses who filled in the data collection forms given by the researchers using the paper pencil technique. To collect the study data, the Personal Information Form questioning the participants’ socio-demographic characteristics, and the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS) were used. The mean scores the participants obtained from the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale and its subscales are as follows: 24.18 ± 3.87 for the Interaction Engagement subscale, 20.68 ± 4.41 for the Respect for Cultural Differences subscale, 17.10 ± 3.27 for the Interaction Confidence subscale, 10.27 ± 2.81 for the Interaction Enjoyment subscale, 10.64 ± 2.06 for the Interaction Attentiveness subscale and 82.62 ± 12.83 for the overall Intercultural Sensitivity Scale. In conclusion, the cultural sensitivity levels of the nurses in this study were above average. Keywords Nurse · Culture · Cultural sensitivity
Introduction While the number of people displaced by force due to conflict, violence and persecution has reached record levels on a global scale, at the end of 2016, Turkey has become the country hosting the largest number of refugees in the world in three consecutive years. At present, Turkey hosts more than 3.5 million registered Syrian refugees [United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)]. At the end * Betül Aktaş [email protected] 1
Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, SANKO University, Gaziantep, Turkey
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Cengiz Gökçek Gynecology and Obstetrics Hospital, Gaziantep, Turkey
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of 2016, the number of registered Syrian refugees under temporary protection in Gaziantep, a province in south-central Turkey, was 318,078 and constituted 16% of the total population in the province (2016 Migration Report). Forced migrants continue their lives under different social, political and geographical conditions. The health of migrants varies depending on their previous health status, social relations, the length of the journey they have had to make, the security of their new environment, whether they can speak the language of the host country, the social structure they live in and whether they can access to social aids (İlhan et al. 2016). Demographic and economic changes, and differences in the health levels of people from differe
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