Conducting a Multilingual Study Researching Traumatised Refugees Utilizing a Patient-Reported Outcome System
- 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.
Verfasserangaben: | Michael Storck, Gundula Christians, Birgit Möller, Martin Dugas, Iñaki Soto-Rey |
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ISSN: | 0926-9630 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Studies in health technology and informatics |
Dokumentart: | Beitrag in einer (wissenschaftlichen) Zeitschrift |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Jahr der Fertigstellung: | 2018 |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2018 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 16.10.2020 |
GND-Schlagwort: | Child; Electronic Health Records; Europe; Humans; Language; Multilingualism; Patient Reported Outcome Measures; Refugees/psychology |
Band / Jahrgang: | 253 |
Erste Seite: | 109 |
Letzte Seite: | 113 |
Fachbereiche: | Sozialwesen (SW) |
Publikationsliste: | Möller-Kallista, Birgit |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Bibliographische Daten |