Bakgrund: Personer som invandrar till Sverige bär ofta med sig en kultur som skiljer sig från den svenska normkulturen. I samband med den mångkulturella ökningen i landet ökar tvärkulturella vårdmöten i olika vårdkontexter där vårdgivaren och vårdtagarens kulturella bakgrund skiljer sig från varandra. Dessa tvärkulturella möten kan resultera i barriärer där vårdgivaren och vårdtagaren inte förstår varandra. För att minska dessa barriärer har forskning visat på att sjuksköterskan bör ha en kulturmedvetenhet. Sjuksköterskans kulturella kompetens påverkar hur mötet med patienter med en annan kultur slutar. Syfte: Syftet är att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser av tvärkulturella vårdmöten med patienter i akutsjukvård. Metod: En litteraturstudie som grundar sig på tio utvalda kvalitativa vårdvetenskapliga artiklar. Artiklarna lästes noggrant igenom där relevant innehåll för arbetets syfte valts ut och sammanställts i ett dokument. Utifrån dokumentet grupperades likheter och olikheter i olika kategorier som därefter kunde utvecklas till huvudteman samt subteman som presenteras i arbetets resultat. Resultat: Resultatet presenteras utifrån fyra huvudteman samt ett subtema; sjuksköterskors erfarenhet av kommunikation i tvärkulturella möten med patienter i akutsjukvård, kulturella skillnader som påverkar vårdrelationen med ett subtema: sjuksköterskans upplevelse av hur anhöriga påverkar patientens vård, kulturella skillnader som påverkar sjuksköterskans arbetssätt samt sjuksköterskors upplevelse av sin kulturella kompetens. Diskussion: Kulturella olikheter i vården kan leda till barriärer som hindrar sjuksköterskan att förstå patienten och vise versa. Dessa barriärer kan resultera i allvarliga konsekvenser som kan skada patienten. Det ligger därför stor vikt i att utbilda och utveckla sjuksköterskors kulturella medvetenhet genom sjuksköterskeutbildningen då sjuksköterskans kulturella medvetenhet påverkar hur ett tvärkulturellt vårdmöte slutar / Background: Persons who immigrate to Sweden often carry with them a culture that is different from the standard Swedish culture. In connection with the multi-cultural growth of the country is increasing cross-cultural care encounters in different care contexts where the caregiver and the patient's cultural background is different from each other. These cross-cultural encounters can result in barriers where the caregiver and the patient did not understand each other. To reduce these barriers, research has shown that nurses should have a cultural awareness. Nurse's cultural competence affects how the meeting with patients with a different culture ends. Aim: The aim is to describe nurses' experiences of cross-cultural care encounters with patients in emergency care. Methods: A literature study based on ten selected qualitative health research articles. Articles were read carefully where relevant content for the purpose of the work have been selected and compiled in a document. Based on the document were grouped similarities and differences in various categories which then could develop into major themes and subthemes presented in work performance. Results: The results are presented based on four main themes and a subtema; nurses' experience of communication in cross-cultural encounters with patients in emergency care, cultural differences that affect the care relationship with a subtema: Nurse's perception of how families affect patient care, cultural differences that affect nurses' work and nurses' perception of their cultural competence. Discussion: Cultural differences in health care can lead to the barrier that prevents the nurse to understand the patient and vice versa. These barriers can result in serious consequences that could harm the patient. It is therefore of great importance in educating and developing nurses 'cultural awareness through nursing when nurses' cultural awareness affects how a cross-cultural care meeting ends.

By analyzing and contextualizing the polarized discourses on coffee and coffeehouses in post-1652 England, this dissertation argues that the divisive worldviews of the English population at this critical historical juncture shaped the contentious reception of coffee. Countless scholarly efforts dealing with seventeenth-century coffeehouses, those of London in particular, have helped explaining the rapid growing popularity of coffee and the establishments in which it was consumed, the coffeehouse. Building upon exiting literature, this work advances a new approach to shed light the interconnection between social and cultural anxieties, paradoxes and contradictions in seventeenth-century English society, and the contradictory discourses surrounding the rise of coffee in England. My project demonstrates that pervasive anxieties about the rise of religious heterodoxy, the ambiguous dispositions of the English people towards the Ottoman Turks, and the ever-present concerns surrounding the tenuous state of patriarchal manhood collectively helped to both encourage and discourage interactions with the Islamic practice of coffee drinking in coffeehouses. Coffee and coffeehouses came from the Ottoman Empire, the land of the presumed Turks. One sector of society, the optimists, embraced the exotic novelty from the Islamic world and participated enthusiastically in a custom shared with their Turkish, Arab and Persian counterparts since the early sixteenth century. Conversely, the pessimists vilified the adoption of cultural and dietary practices from a non-Christian society; they condemned the enthusiasts' cosmopolitanism as a sign of disloyalty that would only deepen discord in the nation. Indeed, they proclaimed the craze for the Turkish-imported habit as a sign of degeneration, threatening not just Englishmen's religiosity, but also their manliness. Coffee and coffeehouse came from the Ottoman Empire, the land of the presumed effeminate Turks at that. Intimate intermingling with this imported novelty thus compromised England's identity and even sovereignty. By relying upon a borderlands approach that is inspired by gender analysis, this dissertation seeks an alternative theoretical path to explain the controversy and contention swirling around a new drink and novel spaces of sociability among a populace dislocated by years of religious, political and cultural turmoil.

China is the world´s most populated country with a high percentage of old people. The happiness of old people in Eastern countries is related to the living situation and the family concept. China´s sprit of filial piety and the rules from the government are saying that care for old people is the responsibility of adults in China. Given the country´s rapid development and skewed population growth, Chinese adults have a hard time balancing expectations from their old parents and the demands from the modern society.  The aim of this study was to explore Chinese adults´ perceptions of old Chinese people and the traditional care taking of old people in China today. This is a qualitative study, with four semi-structured interviews with four back-office Chinese adult workers aged between 25-40 years. The interview was conducted in a manufacturing company in Shenzhen and lasted between 25-35 minutes. In the analysing of the data a qualitative content analysis by Yin (2013) was used.  The resultat of this study shows that the respect for the culture is important for the well-being of the old people in China. Old Chinese people consider the financial support from the sons as a proof of a successful Chinese family and that the Chinese people are forced to adapt to the rapid development even within the care taking of old people in China. The result discussion is based on the context of the human being and the theory, Transcultural Care, of Madeleine Leininger and with reflections from previous research. Brought to attention from the discussion was that old people felt a strong need of having their culture respected and valued in order to perceive themselves and to be perceived by others as a valuable human being.  A nurse needs to understand that cultures are inconsistent and at the same time respect the cultural heritage of a patient, and thereby understand the patient as cultural being. The individual culture emerge in a patient when the nurse understands the patient as the individual he/she is. Only then can the nurse offer care which leads to individual well-being, for both old and young people. / Kina är världens mest befolkade land med en stor andel äldre. Äldre människors upplevelse av lycka i östländer relateras ofta till deras boende situation och deras känsla av familjesamhörighet. I Kinas finns den ständiga andan av respekt för sina äldre där också regering säger att det är de vuxna kinesernas ansvar att vårda sina äldre. Den snabba utvecklingen i landet och den skeva befolkningsväxten har resulterat i att vuxna kineser har fått det svårt att balansera kraven som de äldre ställer med kraven från landets samhälleliga moderniseringsprocess.  Syftet med studien var att utforska vuxna kinesers uppfattning av äldre kineser och den traditionella äldrevården i Kina idag. Detta är en kvalitativ studie, med fyra semi-strukturerade intervjuer med kontorsanställda, vuxna kineser i åldrarna 25-40 år. Intervjuerna varade mellan 25-35 minuter och utfördes på ett produktionsföretag i Shenzhen. I analysen av datan användes en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med ramar från Yin (2013).   Resultatet av studien visade att respekten för kulturen var viktig för äldre kinesers välmående. Att det finansiella stödet från söner fungerade som ett bevis för familjelycka och att det kinesiska folket har tvingats anpassa sig till den snabba utvecklingen när det gäller vårdandet av äldre kineser.  Resultatet har diskuterats med tidigare forskning och kring den transkulturella omvårdnadsteorin av Madeleine Leininger med fokus på konsensusbegreppet människan. Utifrån denna diskussion framkom det att äldre personer har ett starkt behov av att få sin kultur respekterad och värdesatt för att kunna uppfatta sig själv och bli uppfattad av andra som en värdefull människa. Sjuksköterskan måste förstå att en kultur är föränderlig och samtidigt respektera den nuvarande kulturen hos patienten och på så vis förstå varje patient som en kulturell varelse. Individens kultur uppenbarar sig först när man förstått personen. Först då kan sjuksköterskan erbjuda vård som leder till individuellt välbefinnande, för såväl äldre som yngre patienter.

Trata-se de um estudo qualitativo conduzido na linha da etnoenfermagem. Teve como objetivo implementar o cuidado cultural congruente à mulher durante a gestação, segundo o modelo de Leininger. Participou seis mulheres gestantes moradoras de Passo Fundo, interior do Rio Grande do Sul, no período de março de 2003 a novembro de 2003. Os dados foram coletados durante a consulta de enfermagem e a visita domiciliar; como estratégia para obtenção dos dados utilizou-se a observação participante e o Guia Rápido para Avaliação Cultural serviu de instrumento para conhecer a cultura da gestante. Para a análise dos dados, foi utilizada a Análise Temática e de Padrões. A partir dos assuntos abordados durante a implementação do cuidado emergiram unidades de significado que foram agrupadas para a formação dos temas. Procurou-se desenvolver a implementação do cuidado cultural na gestação aplicando as três formas de ação: preservação, acomodação e repadronização. O cuidado cultural na gestação mostrou-se como um recurso para favorecer o cuidado humanizado à mulher durante a gestação. As descobertas deste estudo apontam para a necessidade de se valorizar o contexto cultural da gestante no sentido de alcançar um cuidado congruente com seu modo de vida.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-22T20:50:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2010-05-26 / O “Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function” (BRIEF) é um instrumento de avaliação das funções executivas refletindo aspectos da vida diária de crianças e adolescentes entre 5 e 18 anos de idade. Consta de três versões, ou seja, a escala para pais, professores e versão pessoal. O objetivo do presente estudo foi traduzir e adaptar, para o português do Brasil, o BRIEF, assim como analisar as propriedades psicométricas iniciais. O processo de tradução e adaptação seguiu os passos recomendados na literatura e amplamente preconizados pelo International Test Commission (ITC). Para análise da adequação da adaptação, assim como das propriedades psicométricas, foram realizados dois estudos pilotos, sendo que a versão final foi administrada numa amostra constituída por 277 pais, sendo 59,6% do sexo feminino, 282 professores, sendo 57,4% feminino, 112 pessoal, sendo 63,4% feminino. Os valores dos Alfas de Cronbach, avaliando consistência interna para os principais índices do questionário dos pais oscilaram entre 0,901 e 0,945, do questionário dos professores oscilaram entre 0,915 e 0,959 e, os do questionário pessoal oscilaram entre 0,924 e 0,957, indicando adequados coeficientes de fidedignidade do teste. A análise fatorial de componente principal extraiu dois fatores (Fator 1 Metacognição; Fator 2 Regulação do Comportamento). No questionário dos pais, os dois fatores foram correlatos (r=0,56). No questionário dos professores, a correlação foi 0,400, e no questionário pessoal, a correlação foi 0,70. Os valores encontrados na versão brasileira se assemelham ao relatados na versão original, indicando boa consistência interna do instrumento nas 3 versões. / Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) is an instrument that assesses executive functions, reflecting daily life aspects of children and teenagers aged between 5 and 18 years old. It has three versions, that is, the parenting scale, the teachers’ scale and a personal version. The purpose of this study was to translate and to adapt, into Brazilian Portuguese, BRIEF, as well as to analyze the initial psychometric properties. The translation and adaptation process followed the steps recommended in literature and widely endorsed by International Test Commission (ITC). To analyze the adaptation’s adequacy, as well as the psychometric properties, two pilot studies were carried out, and the final version was administered to a sample comprised of 277 parents, being 59.6% female, 282 teachers, being 57.4% female, 112 personal, being 63.4% female. The Cronbach’s Alpha values, assessing internal consistency for the main items of the parents’ questionnaire ranged from 0.901 to 0.945, the ones concerning the teachers’ questionnaire ranged from 0.915 to 0.959 and those concerning the personal questionnaire ranged from 0.924 and 0.957, showing proper coefficients of test’s trustworthiness. The factorial analysis of main component extracted two factors (Factor 1: Metacognition; Factor 2: Behavior Regulation). In the parents’ questionnaire, both factors were correlated (r=0.56). In the teachers’ questionnaire, correlation was 0.400, and in the personal questionnaire correlation was 0.70. The values found in the Brazilian version are similar to those reported in the original version, showing good internal consistency of the instrument in the three versions. / TEDE / BV UNIFESP: Teses e dissertações

Judaism, that is dealt with in a lot of publications, is a religion scattered all over the world. In the history of all countries you can find mention of a Jewish locality, ghetto, some famous Jew, or a court case with Jews. Jews were persecuted for centuries, and nearly everybody remembers World War II and the Holocaust. Globalization brings migration and multicultural society. To provide clients with efficient nursing care, it is necessary to ensure good professional readiness of nurses for transcultural nursing. The dissertation deals with the peculiarities of nursing care of clients of the Jewish denomination. For the research part techniques of quality research were used {--} semi-standardized survey interview and content data analyse. The research set consisted of 11 clients from Domov sociální péče Hagibor in Prague (care home), and there were 37 files of medical documentation at our disposal. At the very beginning of the research we set 3 aims. Do hospitalized clients of the Jewish denomination require specific nursing care? Are there differences in providing specific nursing care for clients of the Jewish orthodox or conservative type? Are there differences in the care for clients of the Jewish denomination between the terminal stage hospital and the facility for clients of the Jewish denomination? Based on the aims we set the research questions. We fulfilled the aims, and the research questions were answered during the research. Based on the done research we set these hypotheses: Hypothesis 1. When providing nursing care, it is important to know the type of Judaism a client professes. Hypothesis 2: Jews prefer vegetarian meals in medical facilities. Hypothesis 3: Practising Jews refuse hospitalization in a hospital during important feasts unless their life is in danger. Hypothesis 4: There are differences in providig nursing care for Orthodox Jew clients comparing with care for clients of conservative type. Hypothesis 5: There are differences between the care for clients of Jewish denominations in the terminal stage hospital and in a facility for clients of Jewish denomination. The dissertation brings surprising and interesting research results, which were processed into the model of culture friendly-adjusted care of Joyce Newman Giger and Ruth Davidhizar, and a standard nursing care process for a client of Jewish denomination was developed.

Particularities of nursing care for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints This work deals with the issue of multicultural care because this topic is very relevant at present. It is probable for the staff of health-care facilities to meet members of minorities more and more frequently. To provide high-quality nursing care, the needs must be known and the cultural and the religious differences of members of other minorities must be respected. The nurse provides nursing care adapted to specific needs of minority members on the base of the ascertained data. This work is focused on the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who are called "Mormons". The goal of the work was to find out the particularities of provision of nursing care to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Further to map the approach to health and the particularities of life style of the members of that Church. Interviews with the Church members were made in order to give a thorough picture of the relevant issue. The second part of the research investigation was focused on nurses. We ascertained whether the nurses knew the issue of multicultural nursing and whether they knew the particularities of provision of care to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In order to obtain a base for solution of the above stated tasks, a questionnaire was elaborated. 94 respondents took part in the questionnaire inquiry. The research showed lack of the nurses{\crq} knowledge on the given issue. That results in the finding that it would be suitable to deepen the nurses' interest in the relevant issue. Special nursing care will be culturally adequate and better acceptable for the Church members. The nurses{\crq} training will lead to increasing quality of nursing care. The goal of this work was to unify the information on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The research showed that the Church members were satisfied with the care provided. In spite of that, more interest and respect to their religion by health care workers would be appropriate.

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Le vieillissement de la population des tunisiens des Trente Glorieuses en France, n’est pas épargné par le phénomène Alzheimer, à l’heure où la maladie connaît une stigmatisation et une popularisation intenses tant dans les sociétés occidentales que dans les pays en voie de développement. En référence aux travaux de M. Péruchon, G. Le Gouès ou encore A.-M. Gardey, la mise en évidence de l’involution démentielle, accompagnée de l’atteinte des repères et des limites identitaires, sont abordées selon une approche transculturelle. L’analyse du fonctionnement psychique de dix tunisiens vivant en France en comparaison avec dix tunisiens vivant en Tunisie, tous âgés de plus de soixante ans et souffrant de la démence dite Alzheimer, est proposée à partir de protocoles issus du Thematic Apperception Test. Tandis que l’évidement représentationnel ne diffère pas d’une population à l’autre, l’étude a mis en évidence une altération de la représentation de soi plus marquée dans le groupe de sujets immigrés. L’épreuve migratoire semblerait également renforcer la recherche d’une relation d’objet archaïque où les pulsions d’attachement et d’agrippement tiennent une place centrale. Entre voyage et décolonisation, la double culture est ici présentée par un travail qui plaide en faveur d’un relativisme des données universelles véhiculées par le monde biomédical. Comprendre les représentations culturelles en présence, vise à nous fournir des éléments pour une prise en charge adaptée de nos aînés ; accablés par les effets de l’appartenance à une catégorie socio-culturelle minoritaire, et dont l’identité est souvent définie par la perte et le déficit neuro-dégénératif / The aging of the Tunisian population during the so called TrenteGlorieuses in France is not spared by Alzheimer phenomenon at a time when the disease has an intense stigma and popularization as much in western societies as in developing countries . With reference to the work of M. Peruchon, G. Le Gouès or A.-M. Gardey highlight of the dementia involution in addition to the achievement of benchmarks and identity limits are all addressed in a transcultural approach. The analysis of psychic functioning of ten Tunisians living in France compared with ten Tunisians living in Tunisia, all over the age of sixty years and suffering from the dementia so called Alzheimer's is suggested with protocols coming from the Thematic Apperception Test. While the representational ‘scooping out’ does not differ from one population to another, the study has highlighted a modification of a self-representation more pronounced in the group of immigrant subjects. The migration phase seems also to strengthen the research of archaic object relationship where the impulses of attachment and grasping have an important role. In between travel and colonization, the joint-culture is presented here in a job that speaks in favour of a relativism of universal data carried out by the biomedical world. Understand cultural representations so mentioned aims to provide us with elements for an appropriate care of our seniors overwhelmed by the effects of belonging to a socio-cultural minority whose identity is often defined by the loss and neurodegenerative deficit.

The issue of cross-cultural nursing is currently a hot topic, because the tourism, migration, etc. grow due to the borders opening. The professionals working as paramedical staff are required to provide effective and high-quality nursing care to all people, without exception. But who considers the fact that the caring professionals can be a different culture, religion or nationality? The presented diploma thesis is devoted to nurses belonging to minority groups, and it is aimed to the problem of communication between the patient and the nurse belonging to a minority group. Specifically, this is about foreign-born nurses, nurses of different religions, same-sex orientation and nurses with physical disabilities. The theoretical basis on which the thesis relies, is primarily a conceptual model of nursing of the Rising Sun by Madeleine Leininger in interaction with the model of culturally considerate care by J. N. Giger and R. E. Davidhizar. In the theoretical part, the concepts relating to the cross-cultural nursing and issues relating to minority groups in the Czech Republic are defined. The preliminary descriptive empirical matter of the thesis was to find out what problems do nurses belonging to minority groups have in relation to the profession of nurses. Research sample is made up of 16 nurses belonging to minority groups, including nurses with different sexual orientation, physically disabled nurses, nurses with ethnic differences and the nurses of different religions. For the empirical part of the thesis, the qualitative approach was selected as a research design, since, according to Strauss and Corbin (1999), this option is appropriate in situations in which the researcher seeks to uncover the experience with a certain phenomenon. The introduction of the research investigation was a pilot study, which used the case study technique for data capture, specifically, the method of the life stories of nurses with cultural, religious, sexual or health differences. For the selection of the respondents there was the snowball method used, as we live in an area where there is difficult to reach these people. A pilot study was a base for the research investigation undertaken by using semi-structured interviews with patients, doctors and nurses in charge of the hospital. The results obtained in this survey were compared with the results of a pilot study. The main research objective of the pilot study was defined due to the research problem, to explore the issues of communication within the nursing care between the patient and the nurse belonging to a minority group. Following this target, the main research question was established: What problems do the nurses belonging to a minority group have to face in nursing practice? Then it is followed up with next research question: What difficulties do the nurses belonging to a minority group find in communication with a patient? The results of the pilot study are divided into 4 groups according to the above division, which means the nurses with different nationality, religion, with a different sexual orientation and handicapped nurses. In each group the areas of contact and interaction at the workplace were monitored, it means cooperation with colleagues, and the fact of the contact with patients from the perspective of the nurses and their personal subjective satisfaction of the communication held within the nursing profession. Subsequently, in the context of the pilot study, the occurrence of features typical only for certain groups of nurses was found out. From this point of view, for a group of nurses of foreign nationalities, the results included communication barriers associated with another native language than Czech. The research sample of disabled nurses expands the results for specific care procedures that may be a barrier due to their health-related handicaps. The nurses describe their physical difference and its circumstances.