Question

While acculturation is considered an important topic, no acculturation assessment measures actually exist so community clinics are at a disadvantage in serving ethnically diverse communities.
A. True
B. False

Answer 1

Answer:

B. False

Explanation:

Acculturation refers to the process of cultural interaction and exchange in which an individual or community may learn to accept, to a greater or lesser degree, the practices and traditions of a culture not originally their own. This mechanism is most widely explored with respect to a minority community that accepts aspects of the mainstream culture such as immigrants communities.  However, it is a two-way mechanism, and thus the majority culture also adopts characteristics of the minority cultures. Acculturation measures are extensively evaluated on the basis of four parameters such as scale descriptors (name of scale, year, target level, sub-scale and number of items), psychometric properties (reliability), and conceptual and theoretical frameworks (acculturation orientations, acculturation behaviors, acculturation behaviors).