García Navarro, Esperanza BegoñaMartins Teixeira da Costa, Emilia2018-07-032018-07-032017García-Navarro, EB. & Martins Teixeira da Costa, E. (2017): “Attitudes of undergraduate nursing students to cultural diversity: (Portuguese-Spanish) in a transboundary context”. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 237, págs, 281-287. (ISSN: 1877-0428) doi: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.0761877-0428http://hdl.handle.net/10272/15013Our main goal was to identify the attitudes of nursing students to cultural diversity in a healthcare setting, and find the potential relationship between this and the students’national background and their knowledge of cultural diversity. A descriptive observational study comparing two culturally different populations within a cross-border area (Algarve-Huelva) was conducted. The attitudes of the participants were measured across six categories: this study will describe the most significant ones. The cultural context is essential to the development of attitudes to immigration. Nursing care is a communicative act and encountering the "other" the core of the nursing professionals’ work.engAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Españahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/Cultural diversityNursing educationAttitudesjournal article10.1016/j.sbspro.2017.02.076open access