Abstract
Chinese Medical Aid Team Members (CMATMs) have a significant impact on the implementation of China’s health assistance strategies in Africa. The socio-cultural adaptation of CMATMs not only relates to the psychological situation and life quality of each member of the medical aid team, but also to the health aid performance of every single member and the medical aid team as a whole. This study evaluated CMATMs’ socio-cultural adaptation and its related factors. This was a cross-sectional survey study. The participants’ socio-cultural adaptation was measured by the Chinese version of the Socio-cultural Adaptation Scale (CSCAS). Stepwise multiple linear regression models were used to identify the main factors that are associated with CMATMs’ socio-cultural adaptation in general and in each dimension. The present study demonstrated that, to some extent, CMATMs are facing problems in socio-cultural adaptation, specifically in interaction. The type of service region, annual aid income, and length of service were identified as the main factors that were the most predictive of the CMATMs’ socio-cultural adaptation in Africa. This study obtained baseline information that is useful to relevant stakeholders in their attempts to improve CMATMs’ socio-cultural adaptation.
Highlights
Over the past few decades, China has been making great effort to participate in global governance, in the field of global health
Government officers, and returned Chinese Medical Aid Team Members (CMATMs), we argue that the type of service region may impact the socio-cultural adaptation of our targeted population
19.6% of the participants worked in non-hardship regions, and 32.18% of the participants earned between 130,000 and 190,000 CNY as their annual aid income
Summary
Over the past few decades, China has been making great effort to participate in global governance, in the field of global health. It is true that providing assistance in improving health services in African countries is one of China’s priorities in this field. Dispatching medical aid teams to Africa is one of the main channels for offering health assistance to African countries, as well as one of the concrete manifestations of China’s active participation in global governance [1,2,3]. By 2017, China had sent 25,000 Chinese Medical Aid Team Members (CMATMs) to African countries [5], and there are currently still thousands of CMATMs providing services in recipient countries [3,5]. At the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China pledged that it would continue to send medical aid teams to Africa and expand the scope and scale of the health
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