Emelda's story: applying ethnographic insights to cultural assessment and cervical cancer control.
This article builds a bridge between cultural research and clinical practice by applying insights from an ethnographic study of cervical cancer in Iquitos, Peru, to a cervical cancer focused cultural assessment tool and teaching guide for use with immigrant patients. This application is grounded in Campinha-Bacote's model of cultural competency. Ethnographic research is recommended as a source of knowledge from which insights can be drawn to build assessment skill in cross-cultural clinical encounters-insights into asking the right questions.
Hunter
Jennifer L
JL
University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology*; D018864:Cultural Diversity; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D010568:Peru; D011203:Poverty; D016746:Transcultural Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000451:nursing; D014626:Vaginal Smears