Using children as informal interpreters in pediatric consultations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6072996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bethany R Russell (Indiana University Health), Alejandro Morales (0000-0002-8713-7100), Alejandro Hernández‐morale (0000-0002-0412-4946), Russell D Ravert (0000-0002-1334-166X) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 132-143 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-4902 • E-ISSN: 2056-4910 |
| Publisher | Emerald (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1108/ijhrh-07-2013-0009 |
| OpenAlex | W1956156190 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 37 |
Purpose – Health care professionals (HCPs) face numerous barriers in providing services to limited English proficient (LEP) patients and their families. The purpose of this paper is to explore and expand on the limited scholarship concerning HCPs’ experiences using children as informal interpreters in pediatric consultations. Design/methodology/approach – Ten HCPs from five different fields participated in this study. They were interviewed over the phone and replied to follow-up correspondence about their knowledge on policies for communicating with LEP patients and/or their families when providing medical care. Findings – Using a thematic analysis five themes emerged across all cases: cultural awareness, communication quality, live interpreters as a solution, use of child language brokers (CLBs), and the norm of child language brokering. Through the development of the aforementioned themes, HCPs’ limited awareness of implications when using CLBs and of the established policies related to this phenomenon were apparent. Originality/value – This lack of knowledge, acknowledged by HCPs, provides a platform from which to create awareness of the need for further education about the potential risks CLBs face when interpreting medical information and of the negative impact this process can have on the overall medical outcome of a patient. Furthermore, it allows the authors to address the ignorance within the health care system that has allowed vulnerabilities to LEP individuals being treated in health care facilities
Health care · Ignorance · Interpreter · Language barrier · Medical education · Originality · Phone · Political science · Qualitative research · Scholarship · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Medicine · Migration, Health and Trauma · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology
Child language brokering in linguistic minority communities
Case Study Research
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Nurses’ Concerns and Practices With Using Interpreters in the Care of Latino Patients in the Emergency Department
Transcultural Nursing Practice Described by Registered Nurses and Baccalaureate Nursing Students
Language Brokering
I Helped My Mom,” and It Helped Me
Telephone vs face-to-face interviewing in a community psychiatric survey
The Familial Context of Adolescent Language Brokering Within Immigrant Chinese Families in Canada
Children as Brokers of Their Immigrant Families’ Health-Care Connections
Language Brokering Among Mexican-Immigrant Families in the Midwest
Critical Theory and Methodology
Immigrant Children
The Relationship of Language Brokering to Academic Performance, Biculturalism, and Self-Efficacy among Latino Adolescents
Translators and mediators
Comparing Telephone and Face-to-Face Qualitative Interviewing
Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods to Study Perceptions of Immigrant Youth
Children as informal interpreters in GP consultations
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |