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OHANA: Optimizing Cross-Cultural Care

NCT06944678 · Status: RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2025-08-26

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Summary

Increasing globalisation and international migration have led to greater cultural diversity in Western societies, including healthcare settings. Hospitals and healthcare environments have become meeting places for individuals from different cultural backgrounds.

This diversity presents significant opportunities for improving healthcare, but also introduces complex challenges related to communication, trust and mutual understanding between healthcare professionals and patients. In this context, the concept of culturally competent care, i.e. the ability of healthcare professionals to provide respectful and appropriate care to patients by taking into account their cultural beliefs, values and practices, emerges as a crucial approach to address the specific needs of patients from different cultures. The concept of cultural competence was first introduced by Cross, who defines it as a set of behaviours, attitudes and policies that, when integrated into an organisation or among professionals, enable them to operate effectively in intercultural contexts.

Conditions

  • Cultural Competence

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cristina Pistacchio, PI · Fondazione Policlinico A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-04-10
Primary Completion
2026-05-01
Completion
2027-05-01

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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