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Elanur Uludağ1, Ulviye Aydan Nacak2
1Erzurum Technical University, Erzurum, Turkey.
Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.)
|June 16, 2025
Summary
Nurses face challenges providing care to immigrants due to differing privacy perceptions. Immigrants, particularly from Eastern cultures, prioritize bodily privacy, complicating care, especially across genders.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Sociology
- Cultural Studies
Background:
- Healthcare provision for immigrant populations presents unique challenges.
- Patient privacy perceptions significantly impact the nurse-patient relationship.
- Understanding cultural nuances in privacy is crucial for effective healthcare.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the difficulties nurses encounter when caring for immigrants.
- To investigate the role of immigrant patients' privacy perceptions in healthcare delivery.
- To identify potential solutions for addressing these challenges.
Main Methods:
- Qualitative study design.
- Involved 15 nurses with experience caring for immigrant patients.
- Data collection through semi-structured individual interviews and thematic analysis.
Main Results:
- Identified six key sub-themes related to privacy perceptions.
- Highlighted differences in privacy expectations between nurses and immigrant patients.
- Revealed cultural factors, especially bodily privacy, as a major source of difficulty.
Conclusions:
- Significant disparities exist in privacy perceptions between nurses and immigrant patients.
- Eastern cultural backgrounds often associate privacy primarily with the body.
- These differences create specific care challenges, particularly when nurses care for patients of the opposite gender.
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