@article{StorckChristiansMoelleretal.2018, author = {Storck, Michael and Christians, Gundula and M{\"o}ller, Birgit and Dugas, Martin and Soto-Rey, I{\~n}aki}, title = {Conducting a Multilingual Study Researching Traumatised Refugees Utilizing a Patient-Reported Outcome System}, series = {Studies in health technology and informatics}, volume = {253}, journal = {Studies in health technology and informatics}, issn = {0926-9630}, pages = {109 -- 113}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Approximately 300,000 asylum-seeking children arrived in Europe in 2015. The chance of experiencing a traumatic event is very high for fleeing children. Since the origin of the refugees is widespread, the languages spoken are diverse. Multilingual electronic patient-reported outcome systems (ePROs) can be used to gather medical data in a foreign language and display the results in the health professionals' language, which helps overcoming the language barrier. Utilizing such a system, a two-phase study aiming to screen refugee minors for potential mental health issues has started. Potential eligible participants are examined using questionnaires with good psychometric properties and cross-cultural applicability. To date, 75 minors and 21 of their relatives participated in the study, being German and Arabic the most desired languages for the electronic survey. Developing a system that provides multilingual questionnaires entails several drawbacks like a cumbersome translation process and dealing with writing directions. The proposed translation process and the ePRO can be re-used in similar studies.}, subject = {Child}, language = {en} }