Translating best practice into real practice: Methods, results and lessons from a project to translate an English sexual health survey into four Asian languages.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Migrants are underrepresented in population health surveys. Offering translated survey instruments has been shown to increase migrant representation. While 'team translation' represents current best practice, there are relatively few published examples describing how it has been implemented. The purpose of this paper is to document the process, results and lessons from a project to translate an English-language sexual health and blood-borne virus survey into Khmer, Karen, Vietnamese and Traditional Chinese.

Methods

The approach to translation was based on the TRAPD (Translation, Review, Adjudication, Pretesting, and Documentation) model. The English-language survey was sent to two accredited, independent translators. At least one bilingual person was chosen to rev

SUBMITTER: Vujcich D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8682877 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature