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Rivera L, Butler H, Salinas KE, Wade C, Bazan M, Larson E, Molina RL. Communication Preferences During Pregnancy Care Among Patients With Primary Spanish Language: A Scoping Review. Womens Health Issues 2024; 34:164-171. [PMID: 37827863 DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2023.08.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2023] [Revised: 08/15/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 10/14/2023]
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BACKGROUND Qualified language service providers (QLSPs)-professional interpreters or multilingual clinicians certified to provide care in another language-are critical to ensuring meaningful language access for patients. Designing patient-centered systems for language access could improve quality of pregnancy care. OBJECTIVE We synthesized and identified gaps in knowledge about communication preferences during pregnancy care among patients with Spanish primary language. METHODS We performed a scoping review of original research studies published between 2000 and 2022 that assessed communication preferences in Spanish-speaking populations during pregnancy care. Studies underwent title, abstract, and full-text review by three investigators. Data were extracted for synthesis and thematic analysis. RESULTS We retrieved 1,539 studies. After title/abstract screening, 36 studies underwent full-text review, and 13 of them met inclusion criteria. Two additional studies were included after reference tracing. This yielded a total of 15 studies comprising qualitative (n = 7), quantitative (n = 4), and mixed-methods (n = 4) studies. Three communication preference themes were identified: language access through QLSPs (n = 7); interpersonal dynamics and perceptions of quality of care (n = 9); and information provision and shared decision-making (n = 8). Although seven studies reported a strong patient preference to receive prenatal care from Spanish-speaking clinicians, none of the included studies assessed clinician Spanish language proficiency or QLSP categorization. CONCLUSIONS Few studies have assessed communication preferences during pregnancy care among patients with primary Spanish language. Future studies to improve communication during pregnancy care for patients with primary Spanish language require intentional analysis of their communication preferences, including precision regarding language proficiency among clinicians.
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- Luis Rivera
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Anandarajah G, Mennillo MR, Wang S, DeFries K, Gottlieb JL. Trust as a Central Factor in Hospice Enrollment Disparities Among Ethnic and Racial Minority Patients: A Qualitative Study of Interrelated and Compounding Factors Impacting Trust. J Palliat Med 2023; 26:1488-1500. [PMID: 37379486 DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2023.0090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/30/2023] Open
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Background: Disparities in end-of-life (EOL) care remain among ethnic/racial minority populations. Choosing hospice care in the United States depends on goals-of-care discussions founded on trust. While studies examine hospice enrollment disparities and others explore trust in hospice settings in general, very few explicitly examine the role of trust in hospice enrollment disparities. Objectives: To explore factors impacting trust and how these might contribute to disparities in hospice enrollment. Design: A qualitative, individual interview study, based on grounded theory. Setting/Subjects: Setting: Rhode Island, USA. Participants: Multiple stakeholders in EOL care, with diverse professional and personal backgrounds. Measurements: In-depth semistructured individual interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed as part of a broader study of hospice enrollment barriers in diverse patients. Analysis: Five researchers did a secondary data analysis, focusing on trust as the central phenomenon of interest. Researchers independently analyzed transcripts, then held iterative group analysis meetings until they reached consensus regarding themes, subthemes, and relationships. Results: Twenty-two participants included five physicians, five nurses, three social workers, two chaplains, one nursing assistant, three administrators, and three patient caregivers/family. Interviews reveal that trust is multidimensional, involving personal- and systems-level trust, and both locus and degree of trust. Factors impacting trust include: fear; communication/relationships; knowledge of hospice; religious/spiritual beliefs; language; and cultural beliefs/experiences. While some are common across groups, several are more prevalent in minority populations. These factors appear to interact in complex ways, unique to individual patients/families, compounding their impact on trust. Conclusions: While gaining patient/family trust regarding EOL decision making is challenging across all groups, minority patients often experience additional compounding factors impacting trust building. More research is needed to mitigate the negative ways these interacting factors impact trust.
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- Gowri Anandarajah
- Department of Family Medicine and Medical Science, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Department of English, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Brown University Graduate School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Brown University Graduate School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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Groves PS, Bunch JL, Kuehnle F. Increasing a patient's sense of security in the hospital: A theory of trust and nursing action. Nurs Inq 2023; 30:e12569. [PMID: 37282711 DOI: 10.1111/nin.12569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2022] [Revised: 05/24/2023] [Accepted: 05/27/2023] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Having a decreased sense of security leads to unnecessary suffering and distress for patients. Establishing trust is critical for nurses to promote a patient's sense of security, consistent with trauma-informed care. Research regarding nursing action, trust, and sense of security is wide-ranging but fragmented. We used theory synthesis to organize the disparate existing knowledge into a testable middle-range theory encompassing these concepts in hospitals. The resulting model illustrates how individuals are admitted to the hospital with some predisposition to trust or mistrust the healthcare system and/or personnel. Patients encounter circumstances increasing their emotional and/or physical vulnerability to harm, leading to experiences of fear and anxiety. Without intervention, fear and anxiety lead to a decreased sense of security, increased distress, and suffering. Nurse action can ameliorate these effects by increasing a hospitalized person's sense of security or by promoting the development of interpersonal trust, also leading to an increased sense of security. Increased sense of security results in diminished anxiety and fear, and increased hopefulness, confidence, calm, sense of value, and sense of control. The consequences of a decreased sense of security are harmful to patients and nurses should know that they can intervene in ways that both increase interpersonal trust and sense of security.
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- College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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- College of Nursing, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
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Background and Purpose: Interpersonal trust is trust between two people and is an important component of the nurse-patient relationship in the hospital setting. Interpersonal trust entails good will, familiarity, risk, power imbalance, and vulnerability. This grounded theory study was undertaken to explain how interpersonal trust develops with the nurse from the perspective of the hospitalized adults. Methods: Face-to-face interviews were conducted with 20 hospitalized adults in their private hospital room. Data analysis was conducted concurrently with data collection using constant comparison. Results: The resulting model had six categories within the core category Taking the Time which reflected nursing presence. The beginning phase had two categories reflecting the patient Feeling Vulnerable and Relying on the Nurse. The middle phase had three categories reflecting the nurse Having a Positive Vibe, Seeing Me as a Person and Caring About Me. The endpoint of developing trust was the patient Feeling Comfortable. Patients perceived the nurse as in control of trust development in the hospital setting. Implications for Practice: The nurse conveying a positive attitude was a principal facilitator to trust development. A barrier to trust development was the nurse seeing the patient as a checklist and not as a person. When trust was established, the patient was more willing to ask questions. When trust did not develop, the patient avoided the nurse and attempted to complete activities on their own such as ambulating to the bathroom. The nurse taking the time and establishing trust contributes to safe patient care.
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- Sharon M Jones
- School of Nursing, Indiana University South Bend, South Bend, IN
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Ortega P, Avila S, Park YS. Patient-Reported Quality of Communication Skills in the Clinical Workplace for Clinicians Learning Medical Spanish. Cureus 2022; 14:e22222. [PMID: 35340494 PMCID: PMC8930460 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.22222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2022] [Accepted: 02/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Holmström IK, Kaminsky E, Lindberg Y, Spangler D, Winblad U. The perspectives of Swedish registered nurses about managing difficult calls to emergency medical dispatch centres: a qualitative descriptive study. BMC Nurs 2021; 20:150. [PMID: 34407818 PMCID: PMC8371756 DOI: 10.1186/s12912-021-00657-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2021] [Indexed: 08/08/2023] Open
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Background Telephone triage at emergency medical dispatch centres is often challenging for registered nurses due to lack of visual cues, lack of knowledge about the patient, and time pressure – and making the right decision can be a matter of life and death. Some calls may be more difficult to handle, and more knowledge is needed about these calls to develop education and coping strategies. Therefore, the aim of this study was to describe the perspectives of registered nurses’ views about managing difficult calls to emergency medical dispatch centres. Methods A descriptive design with a qualitative inductive approach was used. Three dispatch centers in mid-Sweden were investigated, covering about 950,000 inhabitants and handling around 114,000 calls per year. Individual interviews were carried out with a purposeful sample of 24 registered nurses. Systematic text condensation was conducted. Results Seven themes were generated: calls with communication barriers, calls from agitated or rude callers, calls about psychiatric illness, calls from third parties, calls about rare or unclear situations, calls with unknown addresses and calls regarding immediate life-threatening conditions. There was a strong consensus among the registered nurses about which calls were experienced as difficult, with the exception of calls about immediate life-threatening conditions. Some registered nurses thought calls about immediate life-threatening conditions were easy to handle as they simply adhered to protocol, while others described these calls as difficult and were emotionally affected. Conclusion The registered nurses’ descriptions of difficult calls focused on the callers, while their own role, the organisational framework, and leadership were not mentioned. Many types of calls included difficulties, which could be related to the caller, their symptoms, or different circumstances. The registered nurses pointed to language barriers and rude, agitated callers as increasing problems. An investigation of actual emergency calls is warranted to examine the extent and nature of such calls.
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- Inger K Holmström
- School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University, Västerås, Sweden. .,Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Barriers and facilitators of patient centered care for immigrant and refugee women: a scoping review. BMC Public Health 2020; 20:1013. [PMID: 32590963 PMCID: PMC7318468 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-09159-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 06/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Migrants experience disparities in healthcare quality, in particular women migrants. Despite international calls to improve healthcare quality for migrants, little research has addressed this problem. Patient-centred care (PCC) is a proven approach for improving patient experiences and outcomes. This study reviewed published research on PCC for migrants. METHODS We conducted a scoping review by searching MEDLINE, CINAHL, SCOPUS, EMBASE and the Cochrane Library for English-language qualitative or quantitative studies published from 2010 to June 2019 for studies that assessed PCC for adult immigrants or refugees. We tabulated study characteristics and findings, and mapped findings to a 6-domain PCC framework. RESULTS We identified 581 unique studies, excluded 538 titles/abstracts, and included 16 of 43 full-text articles reviewed. Most (87.5%) studies were qualitative involving a median of 22 participants (range 10-60). Eight (50.0%) studies involved clinicians only, 6 (37.5%) patients only, and 2 (12.5%) both patients and clinicians. Studies pertained to migrants from 19 countries of origin. No studies evaluated strategies or interventions aimed at either migrants or clinicians to improve PCC. Eleven (68.8%) studies reported barriers of PCC at the patient (i.e. language), clinician (i.e. lack of training) and organization/system level (i.e. lack of interpreters). Ten (62.5%) studies reported facilitators, largely at the clinician level (i.e. establish rapport, take extra time to communicate). Five (31.3%) studies focused on women, thus we identified few barriers (i.e. clinicians dismissed their concerns) and facilitators (i.e. women clinicians) specific to PCC for migrant women. Mapping of facilitators to the PCC framework revealed that most pertained to 2 domains: fostering a healing relationship and exchanging information. Few facilitators mapped to the remaining 4 domains: address emotions/concerns, manage uncertainty, make decisions, and enable self-management. CONCLUSIONS While few studies were included, they revealed numerous barriers of PCC at the patient, clinician and organization/system level for immigrants and refugees from a wide range of countries of origin. The few facilitators identified pertained largely to 2 PCC domains, thereby identifying gaps in knowledge of how to achieve PCC in 4 domains, and an overall paucity of knowledge on how to achieve PCC for migrant women.
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Felsenstein DR. Providing Culturally Sensitive Nursing Care for Vulnerable Immigrant Populations. Creat Nurs 2019; 25:133-137. [DOI: 10.1891/1078-4535.25.2.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Vulnerable immigrant populations require culturally sensitive nursing care that shows respect for their beliefs and values, and fosters trusting relationships by allowing the time required to communicate in their language of origin. Transcultural Nursing Theory (Leininger & McFarland, 2002) provides a philosophical foundation for nursing care of immigrant populations. Harsh political policies involving undocumented immigrants can erode trust and cause fear of all U.S. institutions, including the health-care system. Separating families in an effort to deter entry into the United States without documentation can lead to detrimental effects on the children (Perreira & Pedroza, 2019). The American Nurses Association's Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements (2015) addresses the protection of vulnerable populations.
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