Dokument-ID Dokumenttyp Verfasser/Autoren Herausgeber Haupttitel Auflage Verlagsort Verlag Erscheinungsjahr Seitenzahl Schriftenreihe Titel Schriftenreihe Bandzahl Fachbereich Konferenzname Quelle:Titel Quelle:Jahrgang Quelle:Heftnummer Quelle:Erste Seite Quelle:Letzte Seite ISBN ISSN URN URL DOI Sprache Abstract OPUS4-12698 Beitrag in einer wiss. Zeitschrift Storck, Michael; Christians, Gundula; Möller, Birgit; Dugas, Martin; Soto-Rey, Iñaki Conducting a Multilingual Study Researching Traumatised Refugees Utilizing a Patient-Reported Outcome System 2018 4 Studies in health technology and informatics 253 Sozialwesen (SW) 109 113 0926-9630 eng 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.