title: Beyond self-assessment--assessing organizational cultural responsiveness.
abstract: While there is growing recognition of the need for health care organizations to provide culturally responsive care, appropriate strategies for assessing organizational responsiveness have not been determined. A document review assessment instrument was designed to assess best practice within eight domains, and along seven dimensions of organizational approach to diversity. Results obtained from the pilot of the instrument were congruent with data collected from key informant interviews, a focus group, observational methods and organizational feedback session; however, they were not consistent with self-assessment results at the same site. A larger pilot is required to determine generalizability of results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. sbowen@wrha.mb.ca
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bowen
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D019985:Benchmarking / Q000592:standards; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D054521:Cultural Competency / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards; D030141:Feedback, Psychological; D017144:Focus Groups; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000592:standards; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008350:Manitoba; D020380:Needs Assessment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D015279:Organizational Culture; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011287:Prejudice; D012107:Research Design; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*