title: Making Me Feel Comfortable: Developing Trust in the Nurse for Mexican Americans.
abstract: Trust (confianza) is an important component of patient-centered care and culturally competent care and a major element in the Hispanic culture. The aim of this study was to conceptualize the process of the development of interpersonal trust by hospitalized patients in their nurses. Using the grounded theory method, English-speaking Mexican American patients (N = 22) were interviewed. The core category was Making Me Feel Comfortable. The cyclical process included a beginning stage (Having Needs, Relying on the Nurse), middle stage (Coming Across to Me, Taking Care of Me, Connecting), and end point (Feeling Confianza) with two outcomes (Confiding in the Nurse, Taking Away the Negative). Anytime there was a negative element during the middle stage, this element halted any further development of trust with the nurse. Unique findings were related to Hispanic cultural values of familism and personalismo. The findings have implications which impact patient safety and quality care.
authors.affiliation: Indiana University South Bend, USA jones240@iusb.edu.
authors.forename: Sharon M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D066296:Grounded Theory; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000592:standards; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000208:ethnology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D035502:Trust / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology
keywords: Hispanic Americans; cultural competency; grounded theory; nurse–patient relations; qualitative research; trust