Transcultural Nursing Research Research Articles

A Humanizing Gaze for Transcultural Nursing Research Will Tell the Story of Health Disparities

If we limit our gaze to epidemiologic or medicalized discourse about health disparities, we risk losing sight of the person living in a health disparity context. We may erase or make invisible the person from a health disparity group; pathologize difference at the population level and, by extension, stigmatize the individual; eliminate the upstream context or causes of disparities; and obscure the human story. For the continued viability of our ideas about health disparities, it is crucial that we maintain cognitive flexibility. The unconscious bedrock of trusted ideas about "culture" and "disparities" can be enriched through a humanized view of the person in the health disparities story. Transcultural nursing research complements the biomedical gaze, placing the patient at the center of a cultural context where health problems are embodied, place based, and socially constituted. Humanizing our practice depends on dialogues with those who experience health disparity conditions.

Overcoming Barriers to Conducting an Intervention Study of Depression in an Older African American Population

The purpose of this article is to describe barriers and strengths of a study testing the effects of reminiscence on depressive symptoms in community-dwelling older African Americans. Primary data sources included debriefing sessions, reflective journals, participant observations, and key informant interviews. Data were analyzed using immersion/crystallization technique. Mistrust between gatekeepers and universities, recruitment and retention of research assistants and participants, culturally insensitive instruments, and stigma associated with depression were barriers. Successful approaches used to overcome the barriers experienced by the research team are described. Implications for transcultural nursing research and practice are discussed.

The Level of Cultural Self-Efficacy Among a Sample of Spanish Nurses in Southeastern Spain

A collaborative study between faculty from the United States and Spain was undertaken to investigate levels of cultural self-efficacy among a sample of Spanish nursing students and nurses. Bandura's self-efficacy theory provided the conceptual framework for this descriptive study. The Spanish version of the Cultural Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES-S) was translated from the original developed by Bernal and Froman using the back-translation technique recommended by Brislin. The CSES-S was administered to 113 Spanish nurses and students. Alpha coefficient results for the CSES-S ranged from .90 to .95. Low to neutral levels of confidence in caring for four ethnic groups were found. Regression analyses showed significant relationships between cultural exposure and cultural self-efficacy for the practicing nurses. Results will assist this collaborative transcultural nursing research effort between the United States and Spain to develop and implement programs and experiences to increase cultural self-efficacy among Spanish nurses and improve care provided to Spain's diverse population.

Meeting diversity challenges: Pathway of ‘advanced’ transcultural nursing practice in Australia

ABSTRACTThis paper aims to address the state of transcultural nursing in Australia. In an attempt to address the challenges of cultural diversity in nursing practice, the significance of research-based transcultural nursing knowledge is examined within the evolutionary changes of multicultural policies in Australia. Transcultural nursing research, building upon existing nursing knowledge, provides evidence to advance transcultural nursing practice. In order to promote ‘advanced practice’ in multicultural Australia, models of research-based transcultural nursing practice are examined and highlighted.

Transcultural Nursing Research to Transform Nursing Education and practice: 40 Years

In this article, an overview of some major trends, philosophical perspectives, and theoretical perspectives are presented, along with selected transcultural nursing research findings, primarily from the theory of culture care using the ethnonursing research method. A substantial body of transcultural nursing knowledge with health or well being outcomes has been forthcoming since transcultural nursing was launched in the 1950s. The author contends that transcultural nursing knowledge of Western and non-Western cultures is urgently needed to meet health needs in a multicultural world. Some misconceptions and reflections are offered to advance transcultural nursing research, education, and practice. For "newcomers" to transcultural nursing, some basic readings are recommended.

University of Miami Transcultural Nursing Research Institute

The University of Miami Transcultural Nursing Research Institute was established just three years ago by a charitable trust from the William R. Ryan estate. Created to promote the art and science of nursing through culturally focused research, the Institute is a logical outgrowth of the School of Nursing curriculum which emphasizes culture as its organizing framework, from undergraduate education through Master's specialization and into the Ph.D. program.

Retention of a Folk-Healing Practice (Matiasma) among Four Generations of Urban Greek Immigrants

This article reports a field investigation (N = 328) of a folk-healing practice (matiasma) among a population of urban Greek immigrants in Ohio. While orthodox Western health care is used by this community, the Greek population has also retained ethnomedical beliefs and practices that differ dramatically from those of scientific health care. This study delineates specific facets of matiasma, the configuration surrounding the evil eye. By tracing the retention of knowledge and use of this configuration over a four-generation period, this paper demonstrates the importance of generation depth as a variable in transcultural nursing research.

Transcultural nursing research with schizophrenics

Transcultural nursing research with schizophrenics