*Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professionals-Student Version (IAPCC-SV)©
"Differences challenge assumptions."
Anne Wilson Schaef
ABOUT THE IAPCC-SV©
Application:
The IAPCC-SV© is designed to measure the level of cultural competence among students in the health professions. It is specifically intended for the following health professions' students: physician assistants students, medical students/residents, nursing students, dental students, pharmacy students, and physical therapy students. With modifications, the IAPCC-SV© can be used with other students in the allied health professions.
Description:
The IAPCC-SV© is a pencil/paper self-assessment tool that measures the level of cultural competence among students. It consists of 20 items that measure the five cultural constructs of desire, awareness, knowledge, skill and encounters. The IAPCC-SV© uses a 4-point likert scale reflecting the response categories of strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree. Completion time is approximately 10 -15 minutes. Scores range from 20-80 and indicate whether a student is operating at a level of cultural proficiency, cultural competence, cultural awareness or cultural incompetence. Higher scores depict a higher level of cultural competence.
Development of the Instrument:
The IAPCC-SV© is based on the Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professionals-Revised (IAPCC-R©) (link). Researchers using the IAPCC-R© noted that the reliability of this tool was slightly lower when used with students. Vito, Roszkowski, & Wieland (2005) noted in a study of 695 student nurses that the IAPCC-R© could be further revised resulting in a higher reliability of this tool. The IAPCC-SV© is a result of modifying the response format of the IAPCC-R© to reflect only responses of strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree and modifying and deleting selected questions on the IAPCC-R©.
Obtaining the IAPCC-SV©:
The IAPCC-SV© is available for review and personal use only by purchasing the book, “The Process of Cultural Competence in the Delivery of Healthcare Services: The Journey Continues, 5th Edition (2007), authored by Campinha-Bacote. There are additional requirements and a fee associated with use of the IAPCC-SV© beyond personal self-assessment (see Permission To Use IAPCC-SV© and Cost of Using IAPCC-SV©).
Permission To Use IAPCC-SV©:
The IAPCC-SV© is copyrighted and formal permission and a fee is required before the tool can be used. To obtain permission to use the IAPCC- SV©, 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, method of administration, 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-SV©). 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 an onsite pencil/paper format or internal/external mailings. Only one copy of the tool will be provided if the request is for online/electronic administration. You can utilize this copy for conversion into an electronic format for the designated time granted.
Cost of Using IAPCC-SV©:
There is a fee of $8.00 per tool when administered onsite 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 onsite administration format the IAPCC-SV© is to be hand-distributed to each subject/participant and then personally collected immediately following the subjects'/participants' completion of the IAPCC-SV©. For example, if you are assessing 20 subjects/participants in an onsite administration 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 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 administered offsite in such formats as an online secure format for a training program, in-service educational program, academic course or continuing education offering, an external or internal postal mailing distribution or any form of administration that is not hand-distributed to each subject/participant and then personally collected immediately following the subjects'/participants' completion of the IAPCC-SV©. 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-SV© in any additional projects related or unrelated to its initial use. Please use an order form when purchasing the IAPCC-SV© (order form).
REPORTED RELIABILITY/VALIDITY Of THE IAPCC-SV©
Fitzgerald, Cronin and Campinha-Bacote (2007) conducted a study entitled, Psychometric Testing of a Proposed Student Version of the Tool, “Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professionals-Revised” in which they administered the IAPCC-SV© to 91 undergraduate nursing students in a BSN program at a private university in the mid western part of the USA. Reliability testing revealed a Cronbach's alpha of .783. Construct validity was addressed, in that the IAPCC-SV© is based on the five constructs of Campinha-Bacote's theoretical model of cultural competence in healthcare delivery. Content validity was established, in that the items on the IAPCC-SV© clearly reflect the review of the literature of cultural competence in healthcare delivery that identifies awareness/altitudes, skill and knowledge as domains of cultural competence. Face and content validity was established by reviews of national experts in the field of transcultural healthcare.
NOTE: The following manuscript has been submitted and it currently under review:
Fitzgerald, E., Cronin, S. and Campinha-Bacote, J. (submitted). Psychometric Testing of the Inventory for Assessing the Process of Cultural Competence Among Healthcare Professionals-Student Version (IAPCC-SV).
*Duplication/Copying of IAPCC-SV©: Transcultural C.A.R.E. Associates has a policy preventing unauthorized use of tools.
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Last Updated: June, 2008