Health professional cultural competence reduces the psychological and behavioral impact of negative healthcare encounters.

Conclusions: Findings revealed that provider cultural competence reduces some of the consequences of negative health care encounters that are relevant to health behavior. These findings shed light on the complexity of how providers’ cultural competence impacts patient behavior, highlighting the importance of including psychological variables when investigating the role of cultural competence in health behavior and outcome. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research