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What Is The Key To Culturally Competent Care: Reducing Bias Or Cultural Tailoring?, Adolfo Gabriel Cuevas, Kerth O'Brien, Somnath Saha

Psychology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Objective: To gain a better understanding as to whether disparities in patient– provider relationships arise from ethnic minority patients being treated differently than European American patients while they would prefer to be treated the same, or whether disparities arise when ethnic minority patients are treated the same as European American patients while they would prefer to be treated differently.

Method: African-American, Latina/Latino and European American community members were recruited to participate in one of 27 focus group discussions. Topics included what made a good or bad relationship with a doctor and what led one to trust a doctor. A thematic …