Date
11-13-2024
Department
School of Education
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy in Education (PhD)
Chair
Rollen C. Fowler
Keywords
demographics, experiential learning, service learning, community-engaged learning, multiple regression, confirmatory factor analysis.
Disciplines
Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Higher Education
Recommended Citation
Gathambo, Maryanne Koech, "Cultural Competence and Cultural Humility Among Healthcare Students Related to Community Engagement and Service Learning: A Multiple Regression and Confirmatory Factor Analysis Study" (2024). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 6199.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/6199
Abstract
The purpose of this quantitative, hierarchical multiple regression and confirmatory factor analysis study was to investigate the cultural humility and cultural competence (competemility) of healthcare students and examine the strongest predictor of cultural competemility based on demographic and experiential learning factors. Hierarchical multiple regression was used to investigate the degree to which the predictor variables age, gender, and community engagement/service hours (i.e., CEL/SL) could be forecasted by their competemility score (criterion variable) as measured by The Inventory for Assessing The Process Of Cultural Competemility Among Healthcare Professionals (IAPCC-HCP). Data were obtained from a criterion-based purposive sample of 70 survey participants who were healthcare students from an overall student population of over 1,000 eligible students during the 2023-2024 school year. Due to limited construct validity evidence of the IAPCC-HCP, a CFA was conducted to confirm the nature of the cultural competemility construct. Cultural competence and cultural humility are crucial to providing quality healthcare. Additional studies like these are needed to advance the literature looking into predictors with a larger sample size of healthcare students.
