The determination of intercultural sensitivity and ethnocentrism levels among nurses and nursing students: A border of city, Turkey.

The current study is a descriptive-comparative study and aims to determine intercultural sensitivity and ethnocentrism levels among nurses and nursing students. The study was conducted with 207 nurses working at a State Hospital and 211 nursing students studying at a University between November 30, 2019, and January 20, 2020. The data were collected using a descriptive characteristics form, the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale, and the Ethnocentrism Scale. It was found that both nurses and nursing students (73.4% and 60.7%, respectively) struggled to communicate with foreign patients and experienced problems with cultural differences (49.8% and 22.7%, respectively). A statistically significant negative correlation was found for the nurses and nursing students in terms of their intercultural sensitivity and ethnocentrism scores (p < .05). Nurses and student nurses should interact with people from different cultures to improve refugee health care. © 2021 Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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Fatma Karasu, Filiz Polat, Canan B Okuyan. The determination of intercultural sensitivity and ethnocentrism levels among nurses and nursing students: A border of city, Turkey. Perspectives in psychiatric care. 2022 Jan;58(1):314-322

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