Skip to contentScholarGate
LibraryBookshelfDeskReview StudioAssistant
Sign in
Cultural Humility Scale/Evidence
Method evidence record

Cultural Humility Scale

The Cultural Humility Scale (CHS) is a self-report instrument designed to assess healthcare providers' capacity for cultural humility—a stance of openness, self-reflection, and power-sharing with patients from diverse cultural backgrounds. Originating from theoretical work by Tervalon and Murray-García (1998) and operationalized by Hook and colleagues (2013), the CHS measures clinicians' willingness to acknowledge limits in cultural knowledge, receptiveness to patient perspectives, and commitment to lifelong learning about culture. The instrument is widely used in medical, nursing, counseling, and other health professions education to evaluate trainees' readiness for culturally humble practice.

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Source record

Citations copied verbatim from the method’s source record. No claim-level verification is inferred from them.

Cultural Humility Scale
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / transcultural-nursing
  • Tervalon, M., & Murray-García, J. (1998). Cultural humility versus cultural competence: A critical distinction in defining physician training outcomes in multicultural education. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 9(2), 117–125. · DOI 10.1353/hpu.2010.0233
  • Hook, J. N., Davis, D. E., Owen, J., Worthington Jr., E. L., & Utsey, S. O. (2013). Cultural humility: Measuring openness to culturally diverse clients. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 60(3), 353–366. · DOI 10.1037/a0032595
Open full method

Curated claims

Claims persisted in the evidence ledger, each with its own assessment.

No curated claims yet

This view does not invent a claim assessment when the ledger has none.

Related methods

Generated from the method graph and shown as machine-suggested relations — no evidence claim is inferred.

Same method familyCultural Competence Assessment Instrumentmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyMulticultural Counseling Inventorymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPatient-Provider Cultural Sensitivity Scalemachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRacism and Life Experiences Scalesmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

Evidence status

Sources recorded, not reviewed

Bibliographic sources are present. Claim-level evidence review has not been performed.

Sources

2 recorded citations, copied from the method source record.

Actions

Open method page
ScholarGate

A content-first reference library for research methods — what each one is, how it works, and where it comes from.

Open data (CC-BY)

Explore

  • Library
  • Search the library…
  • Browse by field
  • Fields
  • Journey
  • Compare
  • Which method?

Reference

  • Subjects
  • Atlas
  • Glossary
  • Methodology
  • Philosophy

Your tools

  • Bookshelf
  • Desk
  • Chat

Company

  • About
  • Pricing
  • Contact
  • Suggest a method

Entries are compiled from published sources for reference. Verifying the accuracy and suitability of any information for your own use remains your responsibility.

© 2026 ScholarGate · A research-method reference library
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Terms
  • Delete account