Statistics Faculty Research

Title

Transcultural Self-Efficacy Perceptions of Baccalaureate Nursing Students

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 5-2015

Abstract

Addressing the health care needs of a 21st-century nation that is experiencing increased diversity and disparity will require new models of educating future providers. The cultural competence and confidence model was the guiding framework in a study evaluating the influence of cultural educational offerings on the transcultural self-efficacy (TSE) perceptions in baccalaureate nursing students. The Transcultural Self-Efficacy Tool was used to measure perceived TSE in a pretest (N = 260), posttest (N = 236) study over an academic year. Significant changes were demonstrated in overall self-efficacy and on the cognitive, practical, and affective subscales. A classification and regression tree analysis identified social orientation as the demographic variable most predictive of the TSE level. This study supports previous research where positive changes were found in students’ TSE based on the inclusion of cultural interventions in the nursing curriculum.

Publication Title

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volume

26

Issue

3

First Page

327

Last Page

335

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