Determinants of translation ambiguity

Degani, Tamar; Prior, Anat; Eddington, Chelsea M.; Fontes, Ana Beatriz Arêas da Luz; Tokowicz, Natasha

doi:10.1075/lab.14013.deg

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“…First translational ambiguity is likely to occur in which more than one translation is possible for a given word [ 24 ], and this needs to be acknowledged and addressed by the bilingual committee. In some instances, we chose to provide more than one word in the translated document to make understanding clear.…”

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Adaptation of the Client Diagnostic Questionnaire for East Africa

Kwobah,

Goodrich,

Kulzer

et al. 2024

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Research increasingly involves cross-cultural work with non-English-speaking populations, necessitating translation and cultural validation of research tools. This paper describes the process of translating and criterion validation of the Client Diagnostic Questionnaire (CDQ) for use in a multisite study in Kenya and Uganda. The English CDQ was translated into Swahili, Dholuo (Kenya) and Runyankole/Rukiga (Uganda) by expert translators. The translated documents underwent face validation by a bilingual committee, who resolved unclear statements, agreed on final translations and reviewed back translations to English. A diagnostic interview by a mental health specialist was used for criterion validation, and Kappa statistics assessed the strength of agreement between non-specialist scores and mental health professionals’ diagnoses. Achieving semantic equivalence between translations was a challenge. Validation analysis was done with 30 participants at each site (median age 32.3 years (IQR = (26.5, 36.3)); 58 (64.4%) female). The sensitivity was 86.7%, specificity 64.4%, positive predictive value 70.9% and negative predictive value 82.9%. Diagnostic accuracy by the non-specialist was 75.6%. Agreement was substantial for major depressive episode and positive alcohol (past 6 months) and alcohol abuse (past 30 days). Agreement was moderate for other depressive disorders, panic disorder and psychosis screen; fair for generalized anxiety, drug abuse (past 6 months) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); and poor for drug abuse (past 30 days). Variability of agreement between sites was seen for drug use (past 6 months) and PTSD. Our study successfully adapted the CDQ for use among people living with HIV in East Africa. We established that trained non-specialists can use the CDQ to screen for common mental health and substance use disorders with reasonable accuracy. Its use has the potential to increase case identification, improve linkage to mental healthcare, and improve outcomes. We recommend further studies to establish the psychometric properties of the translated tool.

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Adaptation of the Client Diagnostic Questionnaire for East Africa

Kwobah,

Goodrich,

Kulzer

et al. 2024

PLOS Glob Public Health

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“…author is hidden in the text), untranslatability (no same meaning as the original word is available in the translated language), and the translators, should be considered (Degani et al, 2016). The effect of the aforementioned factors was minimized by following a standard method of translation in the translation process.…”

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Questionnaire for the Assessment of Self‐Disgust: The psychometric testing among mental disorders in China

Jin

Herrera

2020

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Research on self-disgust is relevant to psychopathologic tendencies because it has been shown to play a critical role in several mental disorders. Examining self-disgust and exploring its role in mental health are significant goals. The purpose of this study was to translate the Questionnaire for the Assessment of Self-Disgust (QASD) into Chinese and evaluate its validity and reliability. The translation and validation of the QASD were guided by the World Health Organization's Process of Translation and Adaptation of Instruments. Three phases were undertaken: (a) professional translation and expert panel review, (b) pretesting, and (c) psychometric evaluation. The psychometric evaluation was tested among 1,068 patients who were recruited from two psychiatric hospitals and three psychological clinics of tertiary hospitals. In this study, multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the two-factor structure of the original QASD construct. Measurement invariance showed that the QASD is invariant across the patients with heterogeneous mental health diagnoses. The correlation of QASD with the Self-Esteem Scale (SES) and the Trait Anger Scale (TAS) showed that it has good convergent validity and discriminative validity. Internal consistency and test-retest yielded acceptable results. Thus, the findings suggest that the Chinese version of the QASD is a reliable and valid instrument with adequate psychometric properties for assessment of self-disgust among patients with mental disorders in China.

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“…In 2002, Tokowicz, Kroll, de Groot, and van Hell (Tokowicz et al 2002) conducted an analysis of stimuli use in previously published bilingual studies and observed that roughly a quarter of items used in these well-known studies had multiple translations. Since then, translation ambiguity has been explored in various paradigms and been manipulated in studies focused on language acquisition (Basnight-Brown and Altarriba 2016; Bracken et al 2016;Degani et al 2016;Tokowicz and Kroll 2007;Tseng et al 2014).…”

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Multilingualism: Consequences for the Brain and Mind

2023

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Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. Preface to "Multilingualism: Consequences for the Brain and Mind"For multilinguals, acquiring and processing language is similar to other cognitive skills: they are grounded in mechanisms of sensory processing and motor control (Paradis, 2019). Recent clinical and experimental research on multilingualism have introduced innovative neuroimaging measures and psychological methods that have significantly shed light on what we know (and do not know) about how multiple languages are processed, represented, and controlled in the mind/brain (Schwieter, 2019).Since the 1990s and 2000s, a plethora of behavioral and neurological research has demonstrated that for multilinguals, all languages are active to some degree in the mind, even when only using one.Furthermore, the need for the mind to manage the ongoing competition that arises from this parallel activation has been shown to affect cognition (e.g., executive functioning) (Giovannoli et al., 2020), modify the structure and functioning of the brain (e.g., changes in the areas where language control and executive control overlap) (Costa and Sebastián-Gallés, 2014), and slow the onset or progression of cognitive and neural decline .The goal of "Multilingualism: Consequences for brain and mind" is to bring together state-of-the art papers that examine the cognitive and neurological consequences of multilingualism through an exploration of how two or more languages are processed, represented, and/or controlled in one brain/mind. The included peer-reviewed papers are either theoretically or empirically oriented and present new findings, frameworks, and/or methodologies on how multilingualism affects the brain and mind.

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Determinants of translation ambiguity

Cited by 20 publications

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Adaptation of the Client Diagnostic Questionnaire for East Africa

Adaptation of the Client Diagnostic Questionnaire for East Africa

Questionnaire for the Assessment of Self‐Disgust: The psychometric testing among mental disorders in China

Multilingualism: Consequences for the Brain and Mind

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