The Relationship between multicultural knowledge, multicultural acceptance and multicultural efficacy in nursing students

In order to provide nursing services to multicultural clients, nursing students who are prospective nurses must have cultural competency. To this end, it is necessary to acquire multicultural knowledge, an accepting attitude to understand and respect multicultural patients and multicultural efficacy. Accordingly, this study attempted to explore the degree of multicultural knowledge, multicultural acceptance, and multicultural efficacy of nursing students and the relationship between these variables. A survey was conducted on 183 nursing students at a university from November 1 to December 8, 2023 using a structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation, and hierarchical regression analysis were performed on the collected data using the SPSS 22.0 program. As a result, Nursing students' multicultural knowledge(3.05±0.76), multicultural acceptance(3.88±0.49), and multicultural efficacy(58.50±18.66) were at a medium level. Multicultural knowledge has a significant correlation with multicultural acceptance(r=.33, p<.001) and multicultural efficacy(r=.61, p<.001), and multicultural acceptance has a significant correlation with multicultural efficacy(r=.45, p<.001). Experience of interacting with foreigners, multicultural knowledge, and multicultural acceptance explained 45% of multicultural efficacy, with multicultural knowledge appearing to be the most influential factor(β=.47, p<.001). Multicultural efficacy is an essential component of the cultural competency of nurses caring for multicultural patients. Therefore, in order to improve the multicultural efficacy of nursing students, it is necessary to provide various learning experiences to acquire specific knowledge about multiculturalism. However, since research on nursing students' multicultural knowledge and multicultural efficacy is insufficient, future research on this is required.