Within occupational therapy (OT) practice there is a lack of person-centered care regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients. This increases LGBTQ patients’ risk for stigma, discrimination, isolation, and a fear of disclosure to healthcare professionals. As a result, LGBTQ patients may not receive appropriate or necessary care, and experience health disparities. The aim of the proposed solution, LGBTQ Voices Heard: A Video Storytelling Approach to Increase Cultural Competence, is to provide occupational therapy practitioners and students with a distinct, meaningful, and effective one-time multimedia educational training. The social penetration theory (SPT), cognitive theory of multimedia learning, and brain-based learning theory guided the program design. The SPT endorses storytelling; multiple, progressively intimate video interviews of LGBTQ patients will be presented in the educational training. The short-term intended outcomes are OT participants’ increased knowledge and confidence when working with LGBTQ patients, and the LGBTQ patients who participated in storytelling feeling that their voices were heard. The long-term outcomes are increased LGBTQ cultural competence for OT practitioners and improved quality of care for LGBTQ patients. This program design is applicable to other healthcare disciplines.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bu.edu/oai:open.bu.edu:2144/46181 |
| Date | 08 May 2023 |
| Creators | Starkoski, Andrea |
| Contributors | Villegas, Nicole |
| Source Sets | Boston University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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