It seems that GPs with a congruent attitude and use of CAM are more satisfied with their job.
EBP-congruent behaviour is essential to translation of EBP-congruent attitudes, knowledge, and skills into benefits for patients and, for assessment, is measured by some form of activity monitoring.
Cultural competence is defined as 'a set of congruent behaviours, attitudes and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals and enable that system, agency or those professions to work effectively in cross-cultural situations'.
This skill, termed "cultural competence", was first described as a "set of congruent behaviours, attitudes and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations" (p.iv) [ 3].
Cultural competence is a set of congruent behaviours, attitudes and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enable effective work in cross-cultural situations [ 25].
Cross et al. (1989 [ 17]) defined cultural competency as "a set of congruent behaviours, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency or among professionals and enables that system, agency or those professionals to work effectively in cross cultural situations".
Unsurprisingly, this is a view more congruent with continental attitudes than American: In Europe the experts, including governments, are presumed to know best.
A decision is classified as informed if the decision maker has good knowledge of the situation as well as an attitude congruent with the choice, and then implements the decision [ 11].
The Japanese decision not to get militarily embroiled in Afghanistan has been congruent with its civilian attitudes.
In three experiments, we evaluated remembering and intentional forgetting of attitude statements that were either congruent or incongruent with participants' own political attitudes.
An informed choice is defined as having sufficient knowledge and either having a positive attitude towards mammography screening being congruent with the intention to participate and implementation or having a negative attitude in congruence with no intention and implementation.
