adapting a questionnaire, intervention, or the like for the particular cultural population in which it will be used, with an awareness of the population’s values, attitudes, history, and other influences on behavior. Cultural tailoring is intended to maximize rates of participant recruitment for studies, increase rates of completion for surveys and other instruments, enhance accuracy in language and understanding in communications, and increase positive outcomes from treatment.
1. a person or object that substitutes for the role of an individual who has a significant position in a family or group. See father surrogate; mother surrogate.
2. more generally, any person or entity that substitutes for another.