为研究创建文化适应的多语言材料.
Alyssa Coffin1,2, Brynn Elder1, Marcella Luercio1,2
1Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Pediatrics
|June 11, 2024
概括
本研究介绍了一种可行的方法,可以同时将研究材料翻译成多种语言,从而促进语言正义和减少健康不平等. 该方法通过适应各种语言社区的材料来确保公平的参与.
科学领域:
- 健康 公平 卫生 公平
- 临床研究方法论 临床研究方法论
- 语言适应 语言适应
背景情况:
- 将非英语患者从研究中排除在外,会造成不平等和偏见的结果.
- 语言正义对于解决权力不平衡和促进医疗保健中的公平至关重要.
- 对于复杂的研究材料,当前的翻译方法可能不是高效或有效的.
研究的目的:
- 提出并详细介绍一种方法,用于同时翻译和文化适应研究材料到多种语言.
- 通过确保各种语言群体可以访问材料,促进研究中的语言正义.
- 提供一个可行和严格的方法来翻译面向参与者的材料.
主要方法:
- 一种多步骤的方法,涉及专业翻译,双语专家小组审查和患者/家庭试点.
- 省略了反向翻译,并限制了小组成员/参与者数量的可行性.
- 同时翻译小册子,调查和干预材料到8种非英语语言.
主要成果:
- 该方法在约6个月内成功将各种研究材料翻译成8种语言.
- 每种语言的成本不到2000美元,不包括研究人员.
- 关键考虑因素包括量身定制范围,周到设计源材料,应用指导原则和审查语言细微差别.
结论:
- 这种方法为研究材料的同时多语言翻译提供了可行性和严谨性的平衡.
- 它有效地促进了语言正义,并加强了临床研究的包容性.
- 该方法可以适应各种研究环境和材料类型.
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