title: Nine constructs of cultural competence for curriculum development.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the self-administered Clinical Cultural Competency Questionnaire (CCCQ) and assess the perceived level of cultural competence of students in Xavier University of Louisiana College of Pharmacy to guide curriculum development within the 4-year academic program.
  
  
  METHODS
  The CCCQ was administrated to each class of pharmacy students during spring 2009. Exploratory factor analysis with principal components and varimax rotation was conducted to build the constructs explaining the factors measuring students' self-assessment of cultural competence.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nine factors, including 46 items extracted from the CCCQ and explaining 79% of the total variance, were found as the best fit to measure students' self-assessment of cultural competence.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The CCCQ was found to be a practical, valid, and reliable self-assessment instrument to measure the perceived level of pharmacy students' knowledge, skills, attitudes, and encounters in cross-cultural environments. The questionnaire allowed the identification of students' needs for training in cultural competence and the development of a curriculum tailored to satisfy those needs.
authors: Xavier University of Louisiana, USA. mechever@xula.edu
authors: Margarita
authors: M
authors: Echeverri
authors: Cecile
authors: C
authors: Brookover
authors: Kathleen
authors: K
authors: Kennedy
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D054521:Cultural Competency / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D012647:Self-Assessment; D013339:Students, Pharmacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires