Engelsk titel: Health care professionals' conceptions of dying patients with immigrant background
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Författare:
Ågård, Pernilla
;
Torres, Sandra
;
Milberg, Anna
Email: pernilla.agard@soc.uu.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 31
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 20040016
Sammanfattning
The study explores health care professionals’ understandings of end-of-life care provision to migrant patients. 60 professionals were interviewed in
eleven focus groups. The analysis shows that the professionals expected interactions with these patients to differ from care interactions with Swedish
patients. The following challenges were anticipated: lack of knowledge about anatomy, communication barriers, different ways of expressing feelings and
handling pain, high engagement from patients’ families in the care provision. In relation to models for culture competence that aim to teach professionals
how to provide care for ethnic and/or cultural minorities, the results raise concerns about whether these models end up reinforcing staff’s feelings of
stress and uncertainty since their anticipation of differentness can easily be augmented by these models.