Impacts of language barriers on healthcare access and quality among Afaan Oromoo-speaking patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

AB Olani, AB Olani, TB Muleta, DH Rikitu… - BMC Health Services …, 2023 - Springer
Background Ethiopia is a multilingual and multinational federation with Addis Ababa serving
as both the capital city of Oromia regional state and the seat of the Ethiopian federal …

Brazilian immigrants in the United States and mental health: an integrative review

EB Brisola, G Reis, M Costa… - International journal of …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Brazilian immigrants are becoming a more visible minority and, although
different from other Latinos (in a linguistic, cultural, historical, and ethnic sense), are usually …

Culturally responsive care in haemodialysis: A scoping review

S Aryal, PN Bennett, MJ Bloomer - Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To describe how clinicians provide culturally responsive care to culturally diverse
people with kidney failure in haemodialysis centres. Background Culturally diverse …

A balancing act: how interpreters affect the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy with trauma-affected refugees—a qualitative study with therapists

S Hanft-Robert, LG Lindberg, M Mösko… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Objective The therapeutic alliance (TA) has the highest predictive value concerning the
success of psychotherapy. The presented study aimed to explore how the presence of an …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of language proficiency on mental health service use, treatment and outcomes:" Lost in Translation"

D Miteva, F Georgiadis, L McBroom, V Noboa… - Comprehensive …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Mastery of a language is bound to place of origin; low language proficiency is
thus related to migration and cultural differences, all of which influence access to mental …

Configuring public service interpreting in Finland as a sentient professional practice and affirmative social service work: emotion in the work of public service …

H Kara, C Nordberg - Nordic social work research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In this article, we build on an understanding of multilingual social service work as an existing
and permanent, yet under-researched, professional landscape and an everyday reality in …

[HTML][HTML] The use of automated machine translation to translate figurative language in a clinical setting: analysis of a convenience sample of patients drawn from a …

H Tougas, S Chan, T Shahrvini, A Gonzalez… - JMIR Mental …, 2022 - mental.jmir.org
Background Patients with limited English proficiency frequently receive substandard health
care. Asynchronous telepsychiatry (ATP) has been established as a clinically valid method …

Vaccination rates among international students: Insights from a university health vaccination initiative

CCH Liu, J Ling, C Liu, K Schrader… - Journal of American …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To examine the effects of a university's health vaccination initiative in increasing
vaccination rates among international students/scholars in the United States. Methods: The …

Working with interpreters when working with forced migrants in mental health

R Tribe, K Thompson - International Review of Psychiatry, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract 281 million people were recorded as having migrated across national borders by
the United Nations in 2021, this equates to approximately 3.6 percent of the world's …

Falling on deaf ears: interpreters as cultural brokers in mental healthcare

J Bamford, S Abraham, M Alachkar, A Akinola - BJPsych Bulletin, 2024 - cambridge.org
Communication is the cornerstone of mental healthcare. In the UK, many people who will
need access to mental health services do not possess English as their first language. In this …