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Gift Olalusi

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3:00-4:15, Kennedy Union Ballroom

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Description

The study aims to explore the challenges individuals with non-native American accents face in healthcare settings, examining different experiences based on how they manage communication stigma, and offering solutions to eliminate stigma, stereotypes, and biases. The study employed a qualitative approach, where interviews of individuals with non-native American accents in the United States were coded and discussed thematically. Results from the study seeks to improve healthcare outcomes by ensuring non-native English speakers and people with accents can access care equally and without fear or stigma. The study is an on-going research thesis, and the findings aim to raise awareness among healthcare providers about implicit biases, fostering better patient-provider communication and greater patient satisfaction and inform better healthcare policies in the United States.

Publication Date

4-23-2025

Project Designation

Graduate Research

Primary Advisor

Jen K. Ptacek

Primary Advisor's Department

Communication

Keywords

Stander Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences

Institutional Learning Goals

Scholarship; Diversity; Critical Evaluation of Our Times

Assessing how speakers with non-American accents experience and manage communication accent stigma in health care situations in the United States.

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