Survey Item

Responses

Section 1: Awareness

Thinking back to your study abroad experience, please rate the degree to which you disagree or agree with the following statements regarding your cultural awareness, which refers to an individual’s independent exploration of their own cultural background?

・ I am able to differentiate between cultures and to be sensitive to the needs of persons different from me.

・ I have increased awareness about my own cultural beliefs and practices.

・ I reflect about cultural similarities between myself and other individuals.

・ I am aware of the importance of being patient with people in the United States who don’t speak or understand English as well as I do.

・ My personal awareness of my own stereotypes and biases enhances my clinical skills when encountering others.

Strongly disagree (1)

Disagree (2)

Agree (3)

Strongly agree (4)

Section 2: Skills

Please rate your level of agreement of how skilled you are in dealing with socio-cultural issues in the following areas of client care and/or community programs. Cultural skill is the ability to collect culturally sensitive information about an individual to broaden one’s own knowledge of another’s culture.

・ I have improved my team problem-solving skills.

・ I have improved my ability to navigate a location new or foreign to me.

・ I have improved my ability to food shop and prepare food in a location new or foreign to me.

・ I have enhanced by independent problem-solving skills.

・ I have enhanced by respect for a patient’s cultural and health beliefs.

・ I have identified by own biases and their potential impact on quality of healthcare.

・ I have improved my skills greeting clients in a culturally sensitive manner.

・ I have improved my skills eliciting information about use of native healers and/or alternative practitioners.

・ I have improved my skills prescribing/negotiating a culturally sensitive dietary plan.

・ I have improved my skills providing culturally sensitive client education and counseling.

・ I have improved my skills providing culturally sensitive clinical services.

・ I have improved my skills working with medical interpreters.

・ I have improved my skills dealing with cross-cultural adherence or compliance problems (for example, considering periods of fasting or dietary restrictions particular to a certain culture)?

・ I have improved my ability to explain cross-cultural misunderstanding or errors.

Strongly disagree (1)

Disagree (2)

Agree (3)

Strongly agree (4)

Section 3: Cultural Knowledge

Please rate your level of agreement regarding how knowledgeable you are about each of the following subject areas. Cultural knowledge refers to the development of an educational foundation of a variety of cultures.

・ I can better describe all of the norms of culturally different people.

・ I can describe factors other than biomedical that impact health and underlie health and health-care disparities (i.e. access, historical, political, environmental, and institutional).

・ I have deepened my understanding of my own culture.

・ I can identify what resources to use to learn about other cultures.

・ I can better identify the sociocultural characteristics of diverse racial and ethnic groups.

・ I can better identify the health risks of diverse racial and ethnic groups.

・ I can better describe the healing traditions of cultures different from my own.

・ I can better describe the historical and contemporary impact of racism, bias, prejudice, and discrimination in healthcare experienced by various population groups in the United States.

Strongly disagree (1)

Disagree (2)

Agree (3)

Strongly agree (4)

Section 4: Encounters

Please rate the degree to which you disagree or agree with the following statements regarding your participation in cultural encounters since graduation. Cultural encounters refer to any interactions with an individual or group of individuals that are culturally different than you.

・ I reflected on pursuing a career path in culturally diverse environment.

・ My ability to acquire an internship and/or job was enhanced.

・ I recognize the existence of health disparities that are amenable to change.

Strongly disagree (1)

Disagree (2)

Agree (3)

Strongly agree (4)