Abstract
Aims: To explore General Practice teams cultural competence, in particular, ethnicity, linguistic skillset and cultural awareness. The practice teams’ access to diabetes training, and overall perception of cultural-competence was also assessed.
Methods: A cross-sectional single-city survey with one in three people with diabetes from an ethnic minority group, using 35 semi-structured questions was completed. Self-reported data analysed using descriptive statistics, interpreted with reference to the Culturally-Competent-Assessment-Tool.
Results: Thirty-four (52%) of all 66 practices in Coventry responded between November 2011 and January 2012. Key findings: (1) One in five practice staff was from a minority group in contrast with one in ten of Coventry’s population, (2) 164 practice staff (32%) spoke a second language relevant to the practice's minority population, (3) 56% of practices were highly culturally-competent at providing diabetes services for minority populations, (4) 94% of practices reported the ethnicity of their populations, and (5) the most frequently stated barriers to culturally-competent service delivery were language and knowledge of nutritional habits.
Conclusions: Culturally-competent diabetes care is widespread across the city. Language barriers are being addressed, cultural knowledge of diabetes-related nutrition requires further improvement. Further studies should investigate if structured cultural-competence training for diabetes service providers produces positive effects in diabetes-related outcome-measures in minority populations.
Methods: A cross-sectional single-city survey with one in three people with diabetes from an ethnic minority group, using 35 semi-structured questions was completed. Self-reported data analysed using descriptive statistics, interpreted with reference to the Culturally-Competent-Assessment-Tool.
Results: Thirty-four (52%) of all 66 practices in Coventry responded between November 2011 and January 2012. Key findings: (1) One in five practice staff was from a minority group in contrast with one in ten of Coventry’s population, (2) 164 practice staff (32%) spoke a second language relevant to the practice's minority population, (3) 56% of practices were highly culturally-competent at providing diabetes services for minority populations, (4) 94% of practices reported the ethnicity of their populations, and (5) the most frequently stated barriers to culturally-competent service delivery were language and knowledge of nutritional habits.
Conclusions: Culturally-competent diabetes care is widespread across the city. Language barriers are being addressed, cultural knowledge of diabetes-related nutrition requires further improvement. Further studies should investigate if structured cultural-competence training for diabetes service providers produces positive effects in diabetes-related outcome-measures in minority populations.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 501-509 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Primary Care Diabetes |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 23 Aug 2018 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Dec 2018 |
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NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication inPrimary Care Diabetes. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer
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subsequently published in Primary Care Diabetes, Vol 12, 2018, DOI:
10.1016/j.pcd.2018.07.016
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Keywords
- General practice
- Primary care
- Diabetes care
- Cultural competences
- Cultural awareness
- Linguistic competences
- Diabetes knowledge
- Ethnic minority groups
