The practice and operationalisation of “Cultural Humility” across disciplines: A scoping review protocol

Introduction Cultural humility has gained increased traction in recent years to promote inclusion and equity and improve health, mental health, and human services for minoritised groups. Cultural humility acknowledges the dynamic nature of cultural identity, focuses on life-long learning of the self in relation to others, and challenges individuals and organisations to address systemic inequalities. While the literature has been focused greatly on theoretically describing cultural humility, its definition, and conceptualisation, there exists a knowledge gap regarding its systemic operationalisation and practice. Objective As part of this scoping review, a comprehensive knowledge synthesis will be carried out to map the current knowledge landscape on cultural humility, as an evolving and emerging topic, and to identify existing knowledge gaps. The aim is to identify and synthesise the available literature regarding measures and indicators of cultural humility across different disciplines and its Practice and operationalisation at individual, interpersonal, and collective. Methods Literature search will be conducted across multi-disciplinary databases, Scopus, Web of Science, and discipline specific databases, PsycINFO, Education Research Complete, ERIC, Business Source Complete, Medline, CINAHL Complete, Embase, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA) and ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection. Analysis Published literature on measures, indicators, and practice of cultural humility across disciplines will be included. Two independent reviewers will conduct title, abstract, and full-text review of the search results on Covidence. Data will be analysed thematically and mapped to the individual, interpersonal, and collective levels. Conclusion This review will address the gap within the current evidence synthesis by describing the existing knowledge on measurement and operationalisation of cultural humility. The wide scope of this review in considering a range of disciplines as sources of knowledge will expand the current literature of cultural humility within the health and mental health fields and facilitate more innovative approaches towards its operationalisation.