Proportionate translation of study materials and measures in a multinational global health trial: methodology development and implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Current translation guidelines do not include sufficiently flexible translation approaches for different study materials. We aimed to develop a proportionate methodology to inform translation of all types of study materials in global health trials.

Design

The design included three stages: (1) categorisation of study materials, (2) integration of existing translation frameworks and (3) methodology implementation (Germany, India, Israel, Tanzania and Uganda) and refinement.

Participants

The study population comprised 27 mental health service users and 27 mental health workers who were fluent in the local language in stage 7 (pretesting), and 54 bilingual mental health service users, aged 18 years or over, and able to give consent as judged by a clinician for

SUBMITTER: Charles A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8783829 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature