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Betül Özen1, Cansu Yaşar1,2, Zeliha Kaya Erten2
1Erciyes University, Kayseri, Türkiye.
Introduction:
Increasing cultural diversity requires effective educational strategies to support nursing students' cultural awareness and readiness for culturally competent practice.
Methods:
An explanatory sequential mixed-methods design was used. Forty-three fourth-year nursing students completed a single-group pre-test/post-test study without a control group using the Cultural Competence Assessment Tool. Four weekly sessions were delivered. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 23 students and analyzed inductively.
Results:
Post-test cultural awareness and total cultural competence scores were higher than pre-test scores (both p < .001; dz = 1.07 and dz = 0.67). Self-assessment scores increased in awareness and cultural sensitivity, whereas no significant change was found in self-assessed cultural practice. Qualitative findings highlighted language barriers, limited cultural knowledge, and the method's concise, awareness-raising nature.
Discussion:
Pecha Kucha appears to function mainly as a reflective, awareness-oriented pedagogical approach that supports readiness for culturally competent practice, rather than as an intervention producing immediate behavioral competence.
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