Attitudes and Knowledge of, and Preferences for Learning about Cultural Competence: A Study of Pharmacy Students from One Australian Pharmacy Program
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Quantitative Data Collection Process-Survey
2.2. Developing Survey Questions
2.3. Qualitative Data Collection Process—Semi-Structured Interviews
3. Results—Quantitative Data
3.1. Demographic Data
3.2. Summary of Results—Frequencies and Percentages of Students’ Responses to Questions
3.3. Identifying Any Existing Correlations between Variables
4. Qualitative Data
- Theme 1: Exposure
- Theme 2: Formal vs. informal
- Theme 3: Positive views
- Theme 4: Conflict
- Theme 5: Sufficiency
“I joined a leadership and cultural competence style workshop. I didn’t feel like I got anything out of them. I felt it was all a lot of just rhetoric and I kind of tuned out.”
“I reckon it would be really helpful to have people from different cultural backgrounds giving talks and not only Indigenous people giving talks.”
5. Discussion
5.1. Impact of Cultural Competence Domains Attainment Gaps
5.2. Implications of Cultural Competence and the Five Cultural Competence Domains on Clinical Practice
5.3. What a Comprehensive Cultural Competence Curriculum Entails
6. Limitations of the Study
7. Conclusions
8. Implications on Current Practice
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Nkhoma, G.; Lim, C.X.; Kennedy, G.A.; Stupans, I. Attitudes and Knowledge of, and Preferences for Learning about Cultural Competence: A Study of Pharmacy Students from One Australian Pharmacy Program. Pharmacy 2022, 10, 66. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10030066
Nkhoma G, Lim CX, Kennedy GA, Stupans I. Attitudes and Knowledge of, and Preferences for Learning about Cultural Competence: A Study of Pharmacy Students from One Australian Pharmacy Program. Pharmacy. 2022; 10(3):66. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10030066
Chicago/Turabian StyleNkhoma, Gloria, Chiao Xin Lim, Gerard A. Kennedy, and Ieva Stupans. 2022. "Attitudes and Knowledge of, and Preferences for Learning about Cultural Competence: A Study of Pharmacy Students from One Australian Pharmacy Program" Pharmacy 10, no. 3: 66. https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy10030066