Which of the following is NOT one of the six phenomena in the Transcultural Assessment Model developed by Giger and Davidhizar?

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Transcultural nursing uses a framework to understand how culture influences care. The six phenomena in Giger and Davidhizar’s Transcultural Assessment Model are communication, space, social organization, time, environmental control, and biological variations. Diet itself is not one of these six phenomena. You’d assess dietary practices, but within this model they’re considered aspects that can be influenced by the domains above rather than a domain themselves. For example, language barriers affect communication about diet; family patterns relate to social organization around meals; cultural beliefs about controlling health tie into environmental control; and genetic or physiological differences relate to biological variations. So the term that doesn’t fit as a domain of the model is diet.