background and objectives: effective communication between managers and staff is a prerequisite to organization success. cultural competence is key to effective communication. the aim of this study was to survey cultural competence in managers of selected hospitals.   methods: twenty teaching hospital managers and four private hospital managers of senior level participated in the study. data we...

objective: to translate verona service satisfaction scale-32 (vsss-32) to persian, to adapt it for iranian culture and to investigate the performance characteristics of the persian version intended to measure patient satisfaction with psychiatric care. method: the vsss-32 was translated to persian using an elaborated methodology according to world health organization guideline. in addition, und...

This paper describes the “FAME” multi-modal demonstrator, which integrates multiple communication modes – vision, speech and object manipulation – by combining the physical and virtual worlds to provide support for multi-cultural or multi-lingual communication and problem solving. The major challenges are automatic perception of human actions and understanding of dialogs between people from dif...

Mobile telephony is currently the most popular and widespread communication technology on the planet greatly exceeding that of fixed broadband. The way people communicate is a manifestation of their culture, i.e. general beliefs and core values formed during childhood and reinforced throughout life. Currently, there is little systematic cross-cultural research to explicate the effects of indivi...

OBJECTIVE To test the cultural invariance of the Impact-on-Family Scale in order to make cross-cultural comparisons. METHODS The Italian version of the scale was administered to mothers of children with chronic illnesses. Factorial invariance was examined to investigate whether the four factors found with the original United States (U.S.) scale could be replicated. RESULTS The results clear...

BACKGROUND Recent cross-cultural comparisons between Asian and Western cultures have shown that ageism arises more from the lack of availability of social and economic resources for older adults than from the culture itself. We tested this assumption by conducting a survey among people living in a least developed country compared with those living in a developed country. PARTICIPANTS AND METH...

OBJECTIVE To understand some of the cross-cultural issues in providing palliative care to aboriginal patients. SOURCES OF INFORMATION MEDLINE (1966 to 2005), CINAHL, PsycINFO, Google Scholar, and the Aboriginal Health Collection at the University of Manitoba were searched. Studies were selected based on their focus on both general cross-cultural caregiving and, in particular, end-of-life deci...

This chapter explores intercultural communication in the health and social care setting. It is written from a psychological perspective and explores some of the variables that are central to the topic of intercultural communication. Little of the current health and social care literature in Britain has addressed the issue of intercultural communication. This chapter argues that understanding mi...

The purpose of this paper is to substantiate the importance of research about barriers and levers to the implementation of supports for cross-cultural communication in primary care settings in Europe. After an overview of migrant health issues, with the focus on communication in cross-cultural consultations in primary care and the importance of language barriers, we highlight the fact that ther...

The present study deals with German-language cross-cultural research in different fields o· psychology which attempts to achieve one Or more goals of cross-cultural psychology First, methodological problems are discussed, followed by a selective presentation of cross cultural research in personality, clinical, ethological, developmental, and social psychology The theoretical and methodological ...