@article{article_980700, title={The Relationships Between Nursing and Midwifery Students’ Cultural Sensitivity and Xenophobia}, journal={Ege Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Fakültesi Dergisi}, volume={38}, pages={11–20}, year={2022}, DOI={10.53490/egehemsire.980700}, author={Durat, Gülgün and Tarsuslu, Bedia}, keywords={nursing students, Kültürlerarası duyarlılık, yabancı düşmanlığ, hemşirelik öğrencileri, ebelik öğrencileri}, abstract={Objective: Knowing about intercultural sensitivity and xenophobia benefits nursing and midwifery students by helping them to provide high quality care. This study aims to examine the cultural sensitivity of nursing and midwifery students and its relationship with xenophobia. Method: In this descriptive and cross-sectional study, 486 nursing and midwifery students completed the Intercultural Sensitivity Scale (ISS), the Xenophobia Scale (XS) and the Xenophobia Scale-TR (XS-TR). In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistics, Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis H and Spearman’s correlation tests were used. Results: Students’ total ISS score average is 79.31 ± 7.20; the average XS score is 45.64 ± 11.18 and the total XS-TR score average is 48.98 ± 13.89. There was found a negative correlation between total ISS, Respect for Cultural Differences, interaction confidence and interaction enjoyment, and total XS-TR; a positive correlation between all types of ISS scores and XS-TR humiliation. In addition, a negative correlation was found between the total ISS, Respect for Differences and Appreciation and XS-TR Hate. Additionally, a negative correlation between the Enjoyment of ISS and XS-TR Fear (p <0.05). Conclusion: Nursing and midwifery students have moderate cultural sensitivity and low level of xenophobia while providing health services. The students were cognitively aware of their cultural differences and those of others, but they did not internalize them effectively enough and tended to evaluate events and experiences in terms of their own culture.}, number={1}, publisher={Ege Üniversitesi}