Choose one cultural group reviewed within this course. Using Giger and Davidhizar's Transcultural Assessment Model, perform a comprehensive assessment of how your selected cultural group’s beliefs and practices might impact healthcare decision-making, treatment adherence, your communication, your interventions, and your education to align with the patient's cultural values and preferences.
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Outlining for the “Cultural Assessment” Assignment
Introduction
A. Engage reader
Start with an interesting Chinese American healthcare statistic.
B. Build case logically
State the relevance of cultural sensitivity in healthcare.
C. Topic sentence/thesis
This project will evaluate how Chinese American cultural health beliefs and practices impact healthcare decision-making, treatment adherence, communication, interventions, and education.
First Main Point: Communication
A. Verbal and nonverbal communication
Language barriers and translation.
Languages have dialects and regional varieties.
B. Gesturing and Body Language
Example: Chinese nonverbal communication.
Example: Touch vs. eye contact.
C. Plans for Health Communication
Health teaching tools that are culturally suitable.
Example: Healthcare worker cross-cultural communication training
Second Main Point: Space
A. Personal and Physical Space Preferences
Example: Family intimate space preferences.
Basis for Example: Discomfort with opposite-gender physical exams.
B. Privacy and Confidentiality
Example: In a community society, patient confidentiality must be protected.
Simulating family engagement and patient privacy.
C. Health Care Environment Adjustment
Example: Ensure Chinese American patients feel respected and comfortable.
Example: Adding family consultation rooms
Third Main Point: Social Organization
A. Family and Community Hierarchies
The participation of family elders in healthcare choices is one example of moderation.
Example: Community leaders affect health.
B. Spirituality and Religion
Example: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism Health Behaviors.
Example: Spirituality in treatment strategies.
C. Social Support
Example: Family and community support for treatment adherence.
Example: Reducing health stigmas.
Fourth Main Point: Time
A. Cultural Time Perceptions
Example: Flexible schedule and lateness tolerance.
Future-oriented preventative health interventions are examples.
B. Effect on Appointment Compliance
Example: Time-keeping and appointment-keeping tips.
Examples: Accepting conventional time management methods.
C. Long-term care planning
Example: Promotes frequent screenings and checkups.
Example: Early intervention and follow-up
Fifth Main Point: Environmental Control
A. Health and illness beliefs
Example: Chinese traditional medicine ideas.
Example: TCM-Western medicine integration.
B. Health-seeking Behaviors Preferences for natural and holistic solutions.
Example: Teaching patients about the advantages of integrating contemporary and traditional therapy.
C. Patient Empowerment and Education:
Example: Empowering Patients to Take Charge of Their Health.
Example: Culture-relevant health education materials
Sixth Main Point: Biological Variations
Differences in genetics and biology
A. Drug metabolism differences among Chinese Americans.
Example: Genetic illness incidence.
B. Customizing Drug Treatment
Example: Genetically altering medicine doses.
Example: Address specific health hazards.
C. Research/Data Collection
Example: Chinese American health disparities research gap.
Example: Use genetic and biological data in patient treatment.
Conclusion
A. Restate topic
A. Summary of findings about Chinese American cultural practices and beliefs and their effects on healthcare
B. A three-point summary
Emphasize communication, space, and social order.
C. Restate introduction or connect concepts
Promote culturally competent treatment and lifelong learning for health professionals.
Outlining for the “Cultural Assessment” Assignment Page 2 of 2
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1This entails the sharing of information through speech, tone of voice, body language, and the use of silence. A patient from a
culture where making direct eye contact with a healthcare provider is considered impolite may choose to avoid doing so
in a medical setting. Recognizing this can help avoid misinterpreting the patient's actions.
COMMUNICATION
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3This includes social structures that shape an individual's values and behaviors, such as family structures, religious organizations, and others.in
contrast to cultures that place a strong emphasis on individual decision-making, a patient from an Asian
culture may involve extended family members in healthcare decisions.
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION
4 This concerns how time is seen in different cultures, particularly the value of timeliness and orientation
toward the past, present, or future. On the other hand, some cultures—like those found in many regions of Africa or Latin America—might have a more laid-back attitude
toward time, making it more acceptable to be late.
TIME
SPACE 5 This includes the use of traditional treatments, illness
prevention, and health practices based on the concept that one can control nature. For example, a patient with
Native American ancestry may choose to use herbal remedies and traditional healing methods in addition to
or instead of conventional medical care.
ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL
6 This is a reference to the physiological and genetic variations that affect health between racial and
ethnic groupings.For instance, African Americans are more likely to have sickle cell anemia, but
Caucasians of European heritage are more likely to have cystic fibrosis.
BIOLOGICAL VARIATIONS
THE SIX CULTURAL
PHENOMENA
This relates to people's comfort levels with physical touch and the physical space they keep between them during interactions. In contrast to American inclinations for more personal space, several Latin
American cultures, for instance, value close personal space and touch during conversations.
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