title: Migrants' and professionals' views on culturally sensitive pre-hospital emergency care.
abstract: This study was designed to explore the views of migrants and professionals on culturally sensitive pre-hospital emergency care in order to adapt such care to migrants' needs. Interviews were conducted with 41 migrants who had received direct (as a patient) or indirect (as a significant other) pre-hospital emergency care. Furthermore, 20 professionals in the field of pre-hospital emergency care were interviewed. The content analysis showed five distinguishable categories based on the statements by the migrants and six categories based on the statements by the professionals. While migrants gave priority to basic proficiencies of first responders such as 'social/emotional competencies' and 'communication skills', the professionals considered '(basic) cultural knowledge', 'awareness' and 'attitude' the most important. Furthermore, migrants provided practical indications, e.g. regarding areas of cultural knowledge, whereas professionals seemed to view the issue of culturally pre-hospital emergency care from a more theoretical perspective. The issues of the culturally sensitive pre-hospital emergency care itself, as well as the varying points of view of the two groups interviewed, resulted in eight recommendations for culturally sensitive pre-hospital emergency care.
authors.affiliation: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Institute of Psychology, Department Health and Prevention, Robert-Blum-Str. 13, 17487 Greifswald, Germany. Electronic address: diana.kietzmann@uni-greifswald.de.
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Kietzmann
authors.affiliation: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Institute of Psychology, Department Health and Prevention, Robert-Blum-Str. 13, 17487 Greifswald, Germany.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hannig
authors.affiliation: Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Institute of Psychology, Department Health and Prevention, Robert-Blum-Str. 13, 17487 Greifswald, Germany.
authors.forename: Silke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D065246:Culturally Competent Care; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D060731:Emergency Responders; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Culturally sensitive emergency care; Pre-hospital setting; Qualitative research