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. 2011 May;30(3):342-50.
doi: 10.1037/a0022967.

Patient-centered culturally sensitive health care: model testing and refinement

Carolyn M Tucker  1 , Michael Marsiske, Kenneth G Rice, Jessica Jones Nielson, Keith Herman
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Patient-centered culturally sensitive health care: model testing and refinement

Carolyn M Tucker et al. Health Psychol. 2011 May.

Abstract

Objectives: This article presents the results of an empirical test of a literature-based Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care Model. The model was developed to explain and improve health care for ethnically diverse patients seen in community-based primary care clinics.

Design: Samples of predominantly low-income African American (n = 110) and non-Hispanic White American (n = 119) patients were recruited to complete questionnaires about their perceived health care provider cultural sensitivity and adherence to their provider's treatment regimen recommendations.

Main outcome measures: Patients completed written measures of their perceived provider cultural sensitivity, trust in provider, interpersonal control, satisfaction with their health care provider, physical stress, and adherence to provider-recommended treatment regimen variables (i.e., engagement in a health promoting lifestyle, and dietary and medication adherence).

Results: Two-group path analyses revealed significant links between patient-perceived provider cultural sensitivity and adherence to provider treatment regimen recommendations, with some differences in associations emerging by race/ethnicity.

Conclusion: The findings provide empirical support for the potential usefulness of the Patient-Centered Culturally Sensitive Health Care Model for explaining the linkage between the provision of patient-centered, culturally sensitive health care, and the health behaviors and outcomes of patients who experience such care.

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Schematic of the fully recursive model tested in this study. Regression estimates were first tested in a constrained model (equal parameters for African Americans and Whites) and then in an unconstrained model (free variation in parameters across groups).
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