University of Houston, Department of Psychology, 3695 Cullen Blvd, Heyne Building Rm 126, Houston, TX 77204, USA. Electronic address: MWwilliams2@uh.edu.
Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
Department of Clinical and Movement Neurosciences, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom.
The Clinical Hospital of Chengdu Brain Science Institute, MOE Key Lab for Neuroinformation, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
The consequences of ineffective communication between patients and clinicians in the ED range from frustration to significant adverse events. Unfortunately, scenarios where we are unable to understand...
Caregivers have significant role in effective treatment and recovery during hospitalization. Communication barriers in health care lead to poor treatment outcome of patients and caregiver's dissatisfa...
A cross-sectional study was conducted among 120 caregivers of psychiatric patients admitted in psychiatric ward of Patan Hospital who were selected by purposive sampling and interviewed using self-dev...
Low extent of communication barrier was perceived by 29.17%, great extent by 25.83%, moderate extent by 24.17% and no barriers were perceived by 20.83% caregivers. There was association between durati...
More than one fourth caregiver's perceived low extent of communication barrier, almost one fourth perceived great extent and less than one fourth perceived moderate extent. There was association betwe...
Language and cultural barriers can affect healthcare outcomes of minority populations. However, limited data are available on communication tools developed to address health disparities resulting from...
This study was conducted at a family health center in a United States urban setting, in the city of Pittsburgh, between November 2019 and August 2020. This study included Japanese adult patients who h...
Sixty Japanese patients met inclusion criteria and completed the survey. More than half of participants found the JECS useful, and those with self-reported limited English proficiency were most likely...
The JECS is a useful communication tool for addressing common barriers faced by Japanese patients seeking care at an American health center where Japanese-speaking physicians work but no clinic staff ...
This letter supplements some ideas put forward by Kim et al., who debated the importance of patient-centered communication as a central notion of patient-centered cancer care in pre- versus post-pande...
Migrants and refugees may not access mental health services due to linguistic and cultural discordance between them and health and social care professionals (HSCPs). The aim of this review is to ident...
We undertook a rapid systematic review of the literature (01/01/2011 - 09/03/2022) on seeking and/or providing mental health services in linguistically discordant settings. Quality appraisal was perfo...
58/5,650 papers met the inclusion criteria. Both TCNs (and their carers) and HSCPs experience difficulties when seeking or providing mental health services and language barriers are present. TCNs and ...
Language barriers impede TCNs' access to mental health services. Improving language support options and cultural competency in mental health services is crucial to ensure that individuals from diverse...
Language plays a critical role in health communication, particularly in the management and understanding of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among elderly populations. This study aimed to explore the ...
This qualitative phenomenological study was conducted with elderly participants aged 60 years and above, all of whom have chronic diseases. In-depth face-to-face interviews were conducted using an int...
Five major themes emerged regarding participants' understanding of NCDs and the perceived language barriers. These include Limited Knowledge and Awareness of NCDs, Misconceptions about NCDs, Mixed per...
The study revealed significant misconceptions about diabetes and hypertension, as well as traditional practices like bloodletting, which were perceived to relieve hypertension symptoms. It also identi...
Family doctors (FDs)/General practitioners (GPs) are the key contact points for young people and their parents regarding Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination. However, their recommendations are infl...
Under the EU4Health project, PROTECT-EUROPE, WONCA Europe led a task to identify and analyse strategies for clinicians' interpersonal communication skills when discussing HPV and its vaccination with ...
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis using qualitative data focused on HPV vaccine acceptance and communication with the target population. FDs/GPs, members of WONCA Europe, w...
223 FDs/GPs from 36 countries participated. Strengths included face-to-face communication, extensively used to promote the HPV vaccine. Weaknesses involved financial constraints, limited knowledge abo...
It is crucial to train FDs/GPs to address knowledge gaps, enhance communication skills, and maintain a trusting relationship with patients when discussing HPV vaccination. Overcoming financial barrier...
Workers who experience language barriers are at increased risk of work-related injuries and illnesses and face difficulties reporting these health problems to their employer and workers' compensation....
This study merges data from two qualitative studies that investigated experiences with workers' compensation and return-to-work, respectively, for injured workers who experience language barriers. We ...
Almost all workers (34/39) had filed a claim, though most had initially delayed reporting their injuries or illnesses to their employer or to workers' compensation. Workers faced several obstacles to ...
Improving the linguistic and cultural competence of organizations and their representatives is insufficient to address under-reporting among workers who experience language barriers. Efforts to improv...
Understanding disparities in pediatric kidney transplants is important to provide equitable care. We compared transplant outcomes between English-speaking (ES) and interpreter-needing (IN) pediatric k...
Through retrospective review, primary kidney transplant recipients, 0-21 years transplanted between 2005 and 2019, were divided into ES and IN cohorts. Continuous and categorical variables were compar...
Our sample included 211 ES and 37 IN transplant recipients. Compared with the ES, the IN cohort was older at transplant (14.56 vs. 11.03 years; p < 0.01), had more time between kidney failure and tran...
Pediatric kidney transplant recipients requiring interpreter services for healthcare delivery demonstrate fewer post-transplant interactions with their healthcare team (fewer hospitalizations and more...
Patients with cancer who have limited English proficiency are more likely to experience inequities in cancer knowledge, timely care, and access to clinical trials. Matching patients with language-conc...
We used the RIAS, a validated tool for qualitative coding and quantitative analysis, to evaluate interactions between 34 patients and 16 clinicians. The pairings were stratified into dyads: English la...
Spanish language-concordant clinicians had almost two-fold greater number of statements about biomedical information than English language-concordant clinicians. Spanish language-concordant patients h...
Language concordance may facilitate more effective biomedical counseling and therapeutic relationships between oncology clinicians and patients. Future research should further explore the impact of la...
