Cultural Awareness and Family Satisfaction: The Moderating Roles of Nurses’ Positive Emotions and Nurse–Family Cultural Similarity

Mohammad Essawi, Hadass Goldblatt, Ruth Stashefsky-Margalit, Anat Drach, The Department of Nursing, The University of Haifa, Faculty of Social Welfare , Health Sciences, University of Haifa, Faculty of Medicine, Hadassah Hospital Jerusalem, Hebrew University

Journal of Applied Gerontology

Published online on October 16, 2025

Abstract

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This study examined whether nurses’ cultural awareness is associated with family members’ satisfaction with care in nursing homes and whether this relationship is influenced by cultural dissimilarity and nurses’ positive emotions. A cross-sectional, multi-...