Exam 6: Culturally Competent Research

A good way to ensure that your data analysis is culturally competent is to combine all minority groups together as one category to compare to the majority group in the data analysis.

Which of the following statements is true about culturally competent interviewing?

No ethnic minority group is homogeneous.

Describe the steps you would take to maximize the recruitment and retention of recently immigrated substance abusing Mexican American youths and their parents in a longitudinal evaluation of the effectiveness of a family-oriented substance program in Laredo a U.S.city located on the Texas-Mexico border.

Compensation for participants in research should

Studies that do NOT include adequate representation from specific minority and oppressed populations in their samples are NOT generalizable to those populations.

The best time to read about the culture of a population you seek to research is after you design your investigation.

Which of the following statements is/are true about measurement equivalence?

Explain the difference between linguistic,conceptual and metric equivalence.

Sampling with hidden and oppressed populations:

The degree of acculturation might influence which term minority group participants prefer to label their ethnicity.

If research participants from two different cultures have the same average score on a scale measuring caregiver burden,that means that the two groups of participants subjectively perceive the same degree of caregiver burden.

Using anonymous enrollment procedures can enhance efforts to recruit research participants from stigmatized populations.

Ethnocentrism is the belief in the superiority of your own culture.

Describe the steps you would take early on in designing to maximize the cultural competence of your research on a social problem among a Native American tribe living on a reservation.

It is not always easy to define who qualifies as a member of a specific ethnic minority group.

Culturally competent research involves

Describe the steps you would take to maximize the measurement equivalence of a study that compares the degree of caregiver burden among White,African American,Hispanic,and Asian American caregivers for relatives with Alzheimer's disease.

Latinos who recently immigrated to the United States are likely to have the same level of acculturation as Latinos whose parents or grandparents have lived in the United States for several decades or longer

There is no foolproof recipe for ensuring that your research will be culturally competent in all respects.