A study on factors affecting nursing student's cultural competency

Abstract

This study examined factors affection nursing students’ cultural competency, and the relationship between cultural competency and multicultural acceptability in Korea. The answer sheets from 218 respondents were gathered, and 200 of them were analyzed except for 18 incomplete ones. The study participants included 24 males (12.0%) and 176 females (88.0%). As the result of stepwise regression analysis, the facts which affected to cultural competency were having an experience of multicultural education (β=.363, p=<.001), civic action intention (β=.204, p=.026), and having an acquaintance of other cultural area (β=.162, p=.042). This result showed that nursing students with experience of multicultural education, high citizen will of action, and having an acquaintance of other cultural area tended to have higher levels of cultural competency. The model explained 28.4% of the variables. These finding demonstrate the fundamental importance of raising the level of cultural competency, thus, there is a need for continuous effort to integrate multicultural education programs in the nursing curriculum. ? 2018, Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development. All rights reserved.