%0 Journal Article
%T And [They] Even Followed Her Into the Hospital: Primary Care Providers¡¯ Attitudes Toward Referral for Traditional Healing Practices and Integrating Care for Indigenous Patients
%A Karina Walters
%A Meg Little
%A Michelle Johnson-Jennings
%J Journal of Transcultural Nursing
%@ 1552-7832
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1043659617731817
%X Introduction/Importance: Given the promise of integrating traditional healing practices into primary care, we sought to examine the influence of primary care providers¡¯ racial concordance and Indigenous patients¡¯ ethnic salience on traditional healing treatment decisions. Method: Using a descriptive comparative design with an online clinical case vignette, we measured provider decision making via a 5-point Provider Acceptance of Traditional Healing¨CReferral and Consult questionnaire. Aggregated results of the main effects and interactional effects were analyzed using a 2 ¡Á 2 analysis of variance between-subjects design. Results: The main effect for patient racial concordance on the dependent variable was significant, F(1, 89) = 5.71, p = .02. Conclusions: Provider¨Cpatient racial concordance does increase the providers¡¯ likelihood of consulting with and referring patients to traditional healing practices, regardless of the patient¡¯s ethnic salience. Implications for Practice: All health care providers require training in traditional healing practices for Indigenous persons as guided by the cultural safety framework
%K pain
%K alternative health care
%K health disparities
%K holistic health
%K factorial designs
%K ANOVA
%K experimental designs
%K instrument development
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1043659617731817