Improving Clinician‐Patient Communication in Aboriginal Health Care: Barriers and Enablers to Implementing Culturally Informed Communication Training (Clinical Yarning)
Ivan Lin, Deborah G Balmer, Charmaine Green Smith, Di Franklin, Kelsie Crowe, Peter O'Sullivan, Jonathan Bullen, Dawn Bessarab · 2026
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Ivan Lin and colleagues ask what helps or hinders a culturally grounded way of talking with Aboriginal patients in Western Australia. Clinical Yarning mixes story, relationship, and biomedical exchange, and the Midwest region, a vast rural area, has been rolling the training out. The team interviewed fifty-three health workers across four centers, about one in six of them Aboriginal, and sorted their answers through a behavior framework into barriers and enablers.
Views clustered in three bands: what staff know and believe about yarning, how training is delivered, and the surrounding conditions, from cultural safety to executive backing. Goodwill toward the approach ran strong, while rosters, turnover, and thin local expert availability bit hard. The authors turn each finding into an implementation move, a playbook other services can borrow.
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| CREATOR | Ivan Lin, Deborah G Balmer, Charmaine Green Smith, Di Franklin, Kelsie Crowe, Peter O'Sullivan, Jonathan Bullen, Dawn Bessarab |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |