I am confident that readers of P&T struggle with the critical issue of medication adherence on a regular basis. I am also sure that most of us are frustrated by our feeble attempts to improve low rates of patient compliance, especially with medications needed for chronic conditions. I am always on the lookout for help [...]
The principle purpose of the study was to ascertain if there was an association between satisfaction with healthcare, provider cultural competency and participation in healthcare research. Clinical investigators at CUMC were concerned with the low participation of ethnic minorities in healthcare research in the Omaha community, they asked the Office of Health Sciences: Multicultural and [...]
Findings
Minority community members are not satisfied with their healthcare. This hypothesis is not supported by our data. Only nine respondents (11.3%) reported dissatisfaction, six with care provided by the physician and four the nurse. One of the nine was dissatisfied with both the physician and nurse (Tables 5 and 6). The overwhelming majority of our [...]
Demographic Information
Table 1 provides us with the ethnic/racial and gender background of the 80 respondents. The sample was 43.8% male and 55% female. One respondent did not indicate his/her gender. Table 2 shows that 51.3% of the sample was married but that none of the African Americans were married. The data also indicated that more [...]
Research Design
The CAI was developed to assess the Omaha minority communities’ satisfaction with healthcare providers and their knowledge and willingness to participate in healthcare research. The CAI consisted of over 70 survey items that were pilot-tested on 12 members of the minority community before being administered to 80 members of the minority and majority community. [...]
INTRODUCTION
Despite the overall improvement of health in the American population, statistics has shown that there is a disparity in the health of certain racial groups. Infant mortality rates for African Americans and Native Americans are twice those of whites, heart disease is 40% higher for blacks than for whites, and Hispanic and Native Americans have [...]
