Abstract:
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:More effective diabetes care is desperately needed, especially for ethnic minority populations. Provider cultural competence promises to be an important means for reducing disparities in outcomes for patients with diabetes. The objectives of this study were to understand the role of cultural competence in the diabetes office visit. METHODS:Unannounced standardized patients (SPs) were sent to the offices of 29 family and internal medicine residents and practicing physicians. The SPs portrayed a Mexican American woman newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Using a checklist developed with the input of experts in Hispanic/Latino health care and cultural competence, the SPs evaluated physicians' cultural competence, diabetes care, and general communications skills. RESULTS:The average total SP Checklist score was 70.7-11.0%, with a range of 43.9% to 90.2%. Physicians scored highly on items that measured general communication skills (95.9%) but were less likely to ask about social history (ie, family and community support issues, 51.9% and 48.1%, respectively). Sixty-seven percent of physicians ordered a hemoglobin A1c, 44% referred to ophthalmology, and 15% performed a monofilament exam. Physicians' inquiry into SPs explanatory model of disease (ie, asking about the SPs' views regarding their disease and its treatment) correlated with the performance of several diabetes treatment-related behaviors, Spearman's rho=.466. CONCLUSIONS:The findings provide support for a relationship between inquiry into patients' explanatory models of disease and effective diabetes care. Social history and explanatory model elicitation skills are vital parts of cultural competence training programs and potentially valuable tools for mitigating health disparities.
journal_name
Fam Medjournal_title
Family medicineauthors
Kutob RM,Bormanis J,Crago M,Senf J,Gordon P,Shisslak CMsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-06-01 00:00:00pages
400-8issue
6eissn
0742-3225issn
1938-3800journal_volume
45pub_type
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