Can the existing Cultural Competency and wider Diversity & Inclusion training for healthcare professionals help to inform the development of a tailored Inclusion training package for health research professionals?: Protocol for a systematic review with thematic narrative synthesis

The objective of this review is to map and synthesise the literature on cultural competency and other diversity and inclusion training for healthcare professionals and researchers working within the field of health and social care. Cultural competency training for healthcare providers is widely available. However, following preliminary scoping work there appears to be little evidence of bespoke cultural competency or other inclusion style training available that focusses specifically on research and research professionals. Therefore in order to conduct a meaningful review this systematic review will ascertain what literature exists in relation to health and care related cultural competency training for both health research professionals and healthcare professionals. This review will include; how the training or education programme was designed and delivered and how it was evaluated for effectiveness. The aim being to review how these training or education programmes could either be utilised or adapted to develop a specific health research professionals inclusion training programme. The databases to be used will be Web of Science, SCOPUS, Ovid Medline and CINAHL. The inclusion criteria will be any type of cultural competency, inclusion or diversity training, education or workshop that is available for healthcare professionals or healthcare researchers that have an evaluation or outcome measure included. Systematic reviews, scoping reviews or training that has no outcome measure, is disease specific or part of a medical or nursing curriculum will be excluded.