THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SIMULATION WITH STANDARDIZED PATIENTS ON THE CULTURAL COMPETENCE OF CHINESE UNDERGRADUATE NURSING STUDENTS: A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

Abstract

With China's increasing diversity and disparities in healthcare, nursing students often report feeling unprepared for providing culturally sensitive care in a multicultural environment. The objective was to examine the effectiveness of simulation with standardized patients (SPs) to enhance cultural competence.

A randomized controlled trial was conducted, and a sample random sampling technique was used to recruit 50 undergraduate nursing students from two public medical universities in Jiangsu, China. The intervention involved simulation with SPs and the cultural competence lecture, while the control group only received the cultural competence lecture. The study measured the level of cultural competence via the Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professionals-Student Version-Chinese (IAPCC-SV-C), at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and follow-up. The reliability of IAPCC-SV-C were measured with Cronbach's alphas of .82. Descriptive statics was used to describe the participants characteristics and the study variable. The effectiveness of simulations with SPs on the cultural competence was tested with Two-way repeated measure ANOVA.

The results revealed that after completion of the intervention, participants in the experimental group had significantly higher IAPCC-SV-C than in the control group (p

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