The emotional effects on professional interpreters of interpreting palliative care conversations for adult patients: A rapid review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Professional interpreters working in palliative contexts improve patient care. Whilst literature identifies psychological distress in other healthcare professionals, research into emotional effects on professional interpreters in this highly emotive setting is limited. Isolating emotional responses may enable targeted interventions to enhance interpreter use and improve wellbeing. Timely evidence is needed to urgently familiarise the profession with issues faced by these valuable colleagues, to affect practice.

Aim

Describe the emotional effects on professional interpreters of interpreting adult palliative care conversations. Collate recommendations to mitigate negative emotional effects.

Design

We performed a rapid review of studies identifying emotional e

SUBMITTER: Hancox JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10320707 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature