Challenges and Approaches to Newcomer Health Research

Journal of Transcultural Nursing

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 64-73

  Ogilvie, Linda D ^a   Burgess Pinto, Elizabeth ^a   Caufield, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cultural safety in research; immigrant; insider; interpretation; newcomer; outsider; recruitment; refugee; sampling; translation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL COMPETENCE; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIGRATION; NURSING RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFUGEE; SAFETY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TRANSCULTURAL CARE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL COMPETENCY; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; NEGOTIATING; NURSING RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PREJUDICE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; REFUGEES; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; SAFETY; SELF CONCEPT; TRANSCULTURAL NURSING;

EID: 37249031871     PISSN: 10436596     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1043659607309142     Document Type: Article

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