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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023

Indigenous Cultural Safety Training for Applied Health, Social Work, and Education Professionals: A PRISMA Scoping Review.

Tammy L MacLean, Jinfan Rose Qiang, Lynn Henderson, Andrea Bowra, Lisa Howard, Victoria Pringle, Tenzin Butsang, Emma Rice, Erica Di Ruggiero, Angela Mashford-Pringle

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Cultural Safety as a Catalyst for Change: Advancing Health Equity for Indigenous Peoples in Canada.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 2026
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  6. Canadian dietetic education and training actions to support Indigenization, decolonization, and reconciliation.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2026
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  8. Implementation and Evaluation of Cultural Safety Initiatives in Australian Hospital Settings: A Scoping Review.Journal of transcultural nursing : official journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society · 2025
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  12. An Introduction to Traditional Healing in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities.MedEdPORTAL : the journal of teaching and learning resources · 2025
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  16. Building bridges between clinic and community: Supporting patients and caregivers living in rural and remote Canada.Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Tammy L MacLeanDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5454-4367
Jinfan Rose QiangDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada.
Lynn HendersonDepartment of Clinical Studies, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON N1G 2W1, Canada.
Andrea BowraDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-9671-7388
Lisa HowardWaakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.
Victoria PringleDepartment of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada.
Tenzin ButsangDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.
Emma RiceDalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.
Erica Di RuggieroCentre for Global Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.
Angela Mashford-PringleWaakebiness Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-5623-7053

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anti-Indigenous racism is a widespread social problem in health and education systems in English-speaking colonized countries. Cultural safety training (CST) is often promoted as a key strategy to address this problem, yet little evidence exists on how CST is operationalized and evaluated in health and education systems. This scoping review sought to broadly synthesize the academic literature on how CST programs are developed, implemented, and evaluated in the applied health, social work and education fields in Canada, United States, Australia, and New Zealand. MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL, ERIC, and ASSIA were searched for articles published between 1996 and 2020. The Joanna Briggs Institute's three-step search strategy and PRISMA extension for scoping reviews were adopted, with 134 articles included. CST programs have grown significantly in the health, social work, and education fields in the last three decades, and they vary significantly in their objectives, modalities, timelines, and how they are evaluated. The involvement of Indigenous peoples in CST programs is common, but their roles are rarely specified. Indigenous groups must be intentionally and meaningfully engaged throughout the entire duration of research and practice. Cultural safety and various related concepts should be careful considered and applied for the relevant context.

Indexed as

Clinical CompetenceEducation, ProfessionalCanadaEducational StatusHumansSocial WorkUnited StatesAboriginal healthallied healthanti-racismcultural competencecultural safetyhealth educationIndigenous healthmedicinemeta-synthesisnursing

Identifiers

PMID36982126
PMCPMC10049537

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