title: The use of a multicultural conceptual model in perinatal addiction treatment.
abstract: Using a culturally competent approach to address perinatal addiction is essential for promoting a positive response to nursing interventions. Such a health care approach would include sensitivity to cultural values beliefs, and practices specific to the backgrounds of ethnically diverse clients. Clients of Project Hope, a government-funded perinatal addiction treatment program in a midwestern city, are low-income, predominantly African American single parents with a history of substance, family, and/or environmental abuse. A majority had been treated at least once previously for a sexually transmitted disease, placing them in high-risk category for hepatitis and HIV infection. Women remain in the intensive outpatient program an average of 8 months. During that time, the multidisciplinary treatment team use a variety of interventions to address the needs of the clients, which include stable housing, health care, parenting resources, and ongoing social support. The Rooda Conceptual Model of Multicultural Nursing provides a framework for enhancing nurses' understanding of the unique needs of this ethnically diverse population.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, Indiana University Northwest, Gary, USA.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Nardi
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Rooda
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D016294:Models, Nursing; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000208:ethnology*; D016320:Substance Abuse Treatment Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology*; D016746:Transcultural Nursing