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Cultural competence, a relatively new concept in the world of healthcare professionals, has garnered an increasing global attention over the last 20 years. An accurate assessment of baseline knowledge, skills, attitudes, strengths, and limitations of the students in delivering culturally congruent nursing care appears to be a key component in designing teaching strategies.

The current study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of the Turkish language version of the Cultural Awareness Scale and to determine any possible similarities between the compositions of the Turkish version and the original scale.

This methodological study included a sample size of 197 undergraduate nursing students. The research data were collected using a sociodemographic form and the Turkish language version of the Cultural Awareness Scale, which contains 36 items designed to address five different …