Patients of different cultures

Question 1

What is culture?

Answer 1

Beliefs and behaviours shown by a group

Question 2

What are ethnocentrism and cultural relativism?

Answer 2

Own cultural ways of doing things are right. Other ways are inferior, unnatural or barbaric.
Cultural relativism- different ways but equally valid

Question 3

What are world views?

Answer 3

People’s assumptions about the nature of reality, understand how people interpret events consistent with their own beliefs.

Question 4

What are emic and etic perspectives?

Answer 4

Emic- within the culture, patient views and beliefs are from their culture.
Etic- view from the observer, culturally neutral, a dr

Question 5

What issues may present with a non english patient?

Answer 5

Communication, language issues, idioms, names and interpreters

Question 6

What are the roles of men and women in different cultures?

Answer 6

Sex roles, gender preferences, female purity, family and work.

Question 7

Where might there be different beliefs about healthcare?

Answer 7

Pain- expression of pain, may not ask for relief
Religion and spirituality- religious practices and spiritual beliefs- rules on giving or taking blood.
Birth- foods to be eaten at the time of birth, labour and delivery, postpartum- is father there at the birth?
End of life- dying at home or in a hospice
Death- practices- quick burial in Islam