*Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professionals in Mentoring (IAPCC-M©)

 

"The important thing is this:
To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are
 for what we could become."
Charles Dubois

ABOUT THE IAPCC-M©

 

 

Application:

The IAPCC-M© is designed to measure the level of cultural competence among healthcare professionals as it relates to the mentoring process.

 

Description:

The IAPCC-M© is a self-assessment tool consisting of 9 items that measure the five cultural constructs of cultural desire, cultural awareness, cultural knowledge, cultural skill and cultural encounters as it relates to the mentoring process.  Scores range from 9 - 36 and indicate whether a faculty mentor is operating at a level of cultural proficiency, cultural competence, cultural awareness or cultural incompetence in their mentoring relationships.  Higher scores depict a higher level of cultural competence in mentoring.   The IAPCC-M© uses a 4-point likert scale reflecting the response categories of strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree.

 

Development of the Instrument:

The IAPCC-M©  was developed in 2008 by Dr. Campinha-Bacote and was adapted from the IAPCC-R (link) (Campinha-Bacote, 2007).  It is based on Campinha-Bacote's model of cultural competence, The Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services (1998). 

 

Permission To Use IAPCC-M©

The IAPCC-M© is copyrighted and formal permission and a fee is required before the tool can be used.  To obtain permission to use the IAPCC- M©, please mail (no fax/email) your request to Dr. Josepha Campinha-Bacote at 11108 Huntwicke Place, Cincinnati; Ohio 45241.  In your request, please include the title of your project, purpose, target population, specific time frame of use (specific dates), method of administration (personal hand-administered or non-hand-administered), study design (i.e. one-time testing or pre/post test design) and a money order (US Dollars only) or check  (US Dollars and drawn from a US Bank) for fees associated with your method of administration (see Cost of Using IAPCC-M©).  Dr. Campinha-Bacote will return a letter granting permission to use the tool, articulate specific terms regarding use of the tool and include the number of tools if being used in a hand-administered pencil/paper format or internal/external mailings.  Only one copy of the tool will be provided if the request is for online/electronic administration or to be translated.  You can utilize this copy for conversion into an electronic format or to translate it into another language for the designated time granted.

 

Permission To Translate IAPCC-M©: A formal letter of request is required to translate the IAPCC-M© into another language, with the understanding that: 1) there will only be one copy of the IAPCC-M© that will be sent for translation when permission is granted and the researcher must pay, in advance, for the number of translated copies that will be used in the study; 2) there must be psychometric rigor in translating each of the items on the IAPCC-M© to its original meaning; 3) the translated copy must be sent to Dr. Campinha-Bacote; 4) the name of the tool and Dr. Campinha-Bacote’s name as the author of the tool is to be put on all translated versions exactly as it appears on the English version; 5) Dr. Campinha-Bacote will retain the copyright ownership of all translated versions of the IAPCC- M©; and 6) the translated version of the IAPCC-M© is for a one-time use and any further/future use of the translated version in any studies, publications, presentations or any other use, cannot be done without first seeking and obtaining written permission from Dr. Campinha-Bacote.

 

Cost of Using IAPCC-M©:

There is a fee of $8.00 per tool when personally hand-administered in a pencil/paper format for research studies, grants, projects or in any onsite pencil/paper distribution to a group of subjects/participants.  In this hand-administered format the IAPCC-M© is to be personally hand-distributed to each subject/participant and then personally collected immediately following the subjects'/participants' completion of the IAPCC-M©.  For example, if you are assessing 20 subjects/participants in a hand-administered format the cost would be $160 plus shipping and handling.  Please note that the fee is for the number of tools distributed to complete the study; not necessarily the number of subjects/ participants in the study.  Therefore, if you are conducting a pre/post test design with 20 subjects and testing the subjects/participants before and after an intervention, such as an educational program, you will need to double the amount of tools  (40 tools) as the number of participants and the cost would be $320 plus shipping and handling.  There is a fee of $20 fee per subject access when non-hand-administered  electronically or an internal or external mailing in such formats as an online secure format for a training program, in-service educational program, academic course or continuing education offering; an external postal mailing offsite or internal mailing distribution or any form of administration that is not personally hand-administered to each subject/participant and then personally collected immediately following the subjects'/participants' completion of the IAPCC-M©.  Fees associated with this tool are for a one-time use per aggregate distribution in one study and not for unlimited use.  Permission is required for further use of the IAPCC-M© in any additional projects related or unrelated to its initial use.  Please use an order form when purchasing the IAPCC-M© (order form). 

 

 

 

 

PUBLICATIONS USING THE IAPCC-M©

 

Campinha-Bacote, J. (2010).  A Culturally Conscious Model of Mentoring.  Nurse Educator, 35(3),130-135.

 

*Duplication/Copying of IAPCC-M©: Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates has a policy preventing unauthorized use of tools.

 

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  Last Updated:  August, 2011