Table 6.

Association of clinic and provider characteristics with provider cultural competence, multivariate linear regression models^a

	Provider cultural competencec
Clinic characteristics b	Cultural motivation attitudes (N=48)		Behavior (N=49)
	β	P	β	P
Staff diversityd
% Nonwhite staff	0.04	0.026	0.09	0.009
Provides cultural diversity training to providers and staff
No
Yes	0.08	0.439
Provides patient education materials adapted to ethnicity/race or non-English language
No
Yes	0.23	0.093	0.25	0.263
Provider characteristics	Power/assimilation attitudes (N=37)		Knowledge (N=46)
	β	P	β	P
Age			−0.52	0.026
Gender
Male
Female	0.28	0.217
Politics
Conservative
Liberal	0.65	0.013
International medical graduate status
U.S. graduate
International graduate			−3.64	0.460
Specialty
Internal medicine
Family practice	0.33	0.190
Confidence in caring for minorities
Somewhat or less than somewhat confident
Very confident			−9.43	0.011
Confidence in caring for disadvantaged
Somewhat or less than somewhat confident
Very confident	0.41	0.073

^aMultivariate model includes only those variables significant at p<.0.05 in univariate regression analyses.

^bClinic cultural competence characteristics collected by provider report.

^cAll models: p<0.01

^dPer 10% increase in nonwhite staff