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Abstract
The ability to meet up social, lingual and cultural requirements of patients by healthcare professionals is referred to as cultural care practices. The foremost component of cultural competence is respect towards patients and makes them feel that the healthcare professionals value culture, traditions, language and convictions of patients. This would probably increase trust, encourages responsibility of patients, enhance patient outcomes as well as decrease disparities occurring in patient care. When the patients understand that their issues are being heard and addressed by healthcare providers, they tend to participate actively in the healthcare delivery. This can help in improving the preventive healthcare and in turn assist in dodging medical errors that is associated with irrelevant legal costs. This present study focuses on patient understanding towards cultural care and their expectations towards it.