Cultural Sensitivity

Examines the findings of a qualitative research study completed in Thunderchild First Nation, Saskatchewan and discusses an appropriate framework to implement changes to decrease the health disparities between Indigenous Peoples and the rest of Canada.

Description and background of the social situation of the Puyallup Community and of the health and social services available.

Rehabilitation Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Ontario, 2010.

Contends that changes to biomedical practices will be necessary to meet health care needs of the Inuit population. Part of Proceeding of the International Conference on Circumpolar Health (13th); Maternal Health Session.

Responses from three people on the theme of community health: Rose Martial, a community representative, Ann C. Macaulay, a family physician researching diabetes in Kahawake Territory and William Freeman, a professor at North West Indian College and former director of Research for the Indian Health Service (USA).

Explores community members perspectives on video conferencing as a way to deliver mental health services and discusses advantages and disadvantages.

Describes symptoms and causes along with treatment options for people struggling with these conditions.

Coping mechanisms identified by study may have implications for health policy and programs.

Group of 12 Indigenous scholars from Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada convened and agreed that Indigenous health could be improved by promoting culturally safe public health practices.

[Psychology] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2008.

Book review of: Counseling the Inupiat Eskimo by Catherine Reimer.

Gives examples of basic counseling skills needed by health workers in order to counsel people in remote communities.

Social Work Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Calgary, 2001.

Discusses a multicultural approach to counselling services that incorporates traditional and contemporary methods. Please see Corrigendum.

Discusses the most culturally appropriate methods for counselling female Australian Aboriginal patients.

Counselling Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

Educational Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2004.

Looks at counselors' values and how these values may affect the counseling process.

Comments and outlines a course for final year students in audiology and speech-language pathology that was developed in response to student and community evaluations.

Commentary piece which examines the effects that discriminatory healthcare practices have on Indigenous peoples, healthcare outcomes, and social determinants of health. Notes the successes of First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities during the current pandemic and the need for Public Health Care that continues to support the self-determination of Indigenous communities.

Study conducted focus groups and interviews with 21 women to modify a brief program for screening and prevention of prenatal alcohol use.

Discussion of a prenatal care workshop, held in British Columbia, and the dialogue on ways of improving prenatal care.

Project aimed at improving access to traditional-based health services found health and education practices are intertwined and recommends restoring more traditional-based practices into the mainstream.

Discusses the human right and legal issues related to privacy, confidentiality, and the disclosure of health information for Aboriginal people living with HIV/AIDS.

Study look at social determinants that influence breastfeeding in Tlicho mothers in remote locations.

Discusses various aspects of the Medicine Wheel, including knowledge about human development from the mainstream paradigm and Indigenous wisdom and ways of knowing from an ecological position, thus linking human development concerns to a wholistic view.

Shows that Interdisciplinary Health Research Team (IHRT) research goals are positive and contributing to knowledge on nutrition of the Moose Factory community.

Draws upon report to the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) regarding the Canadian Aboriginal experience with the trauma of suicide to develop Australian crisis services.

Examines how popularized assumptions about culture can shape nurses’ ideas about the context of Aboriginal health, and views of Aboriginal patients.

Finds that compassion and nondisciminatory attitudes were more important than ethnic knowledge in the hospital culture.

Research project studies under-utilization of health services by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients.

Comments on the low priority that Aboriginal health occupies in government priorities.

Looks at usability testing for a shared decision making (SDM) tool, the Ottawa Personal Decision Guide (OPDG) for use between the client and health care provider with Aboriginal women at the Minwaashin Lodge.

Study showed that interpreters must act as both translators and cultural mediators in order for patients to be satisfied with their medical care.

Study results indicate that the drinking culture between the Sami and the Norwegian population is different.

Comments on how the prevention programs empower communities to make a difference in their health.

Review undertaken to develop recommendations for a best practice framework. Focused on background to the current poor health status of Aboriginals and identifying challenges facing nursing profession in dealing with these issues.

Discusses the need to understand factors affecting the retention in nursing programs.

Presents background information on emphasis on cultural competence rather than cultural safety.

Humanities: Medical Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Prescott College, 2011.

Covers general issues, policy, prevention and chapters focused on persons of African, Asian, Latino and Native American decent.

Discusses how the unique risk factors and barriers associated with this population must be taken into account when developing programming.

Reports on the initiatives undertaken by six Canadian nursing schools: Langara College, University of Alberta, Laurentian University, Trent University, Nova Scotia Community College, and St. Francis Xavier University in response to the Cultural Competence and Cultural Safety in Nursing Education: a Framework for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Nursing document.

Discusses results of three-year study involving people from Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and the Atlantic region. Information gathered through 35 semi-structured interviews, 11 focus groups, and interviews with eight medical and support professionals.

Counselling Psychology Thesis (M.Ed.)--University of Western Ontario, 2012.

Interviews graduates of substance abuse treatment program which uses Native American medicine combined with Western models. Presents twelve emerging themes.