Cross-cultural adaptation of the Disability of Arm, Shoulder, and Hand questionnaire (dash): English in to sinhala translation

Perera, A.; Perera, Chandini; Karunanayake, Aranjan L.

doi:10.1016/j.physio.2015.03.2120

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“…Yardwork is not a culturally relevant activity for Tamil people as in other Asian populations 7. Other DASH items that required cultural-specific adaptations included putting sweater;89 playing Frisbee, and knitting and Lbs measurement as in Thai version;10 playing golf as in Chinese11 and retaining “bulb” in local language as in Hindi version 8. As in other Asian versions of DASH in Arabic7 Hindi,8 Thai,10 Hong Kong Chinese,11 Korean,12 and Persian,13 Item 21 “Sexual activities” had the maximum nonrespondents.…”

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Tamil Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Pilot Testing of the Disabilities of Arm, Shoulder, and Hand Questionnaire

Srikesavan

Bhardwaj

Gobinath

et al. 2019

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Background: The Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) questionnaire is a commonly used patient-reported outcome measure of symptoms and function in people with upper limb conditions. The objectives of this study were to translate and cross-culturally adapt the DASH questionnaire for Tamil population in India and pilot test the questionnaire for feasibility and acceptability. Materials and Methods: The translation and cross-cultural adaptation process recommended by the developers of the DASH questionnaire was followed. The prefinal Tamil DASH was tested in people with a wide range of upper limb conditions. Acceptability and feasibility was evaluated by patient feedback and the time taken to complete the questionnaire. Results: Around 11 items were adapted to improve the relevance of the questionnaire for Tamil population. Thirty patients were recruited for pilot testing. The prefinal Tamil DASH was found to be relevant and comprehensible to patients ( n = 29, Males/Females: 21/8; mean (SD) age: 34 (11.3) years) and feasible to administer. One item “Sexual activities” had more non-respondents ( n = 16, 55%). Upon consultation with the developers, an item “Wash and blow dry hair” was further modified and the final Tamil DASH was produced. Conclusion: Evaluation of reliability, validity and responsiveness in a large sample would inform the use of Tamil DASH in clinical and research settings.

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Tamil Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Pilot Testing of the Disabilities of Arm, Shoulder, and Hand Questionnaire

Srikesavan

Bhardwaj

Gobinath

et al. 2019

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“…Level of pain Numeric Pain Rating Scale, rated on a 0-10 scale [21] Physical disability Oswestry Neck Disability questionnaire [22], Disability of Arm, Shoulder and Hand (DASH) questionnaire [23], questionnaire to assess details of pain and demographic data, and clinical assessment of active range of movement of neck and shoulder joint [5] Quality of life The SF-36 Questionnaire Short Form [24] Feelings on pain, physical disability and psycho social disability This will be assessed qualitatively using focus groups.…”

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“…First section has thirty questions. Under each question, there are five responses graded from 0 to 5, where zero indicates no difficulty and five indicates extreme difficulty [ 23 ].…”

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Effectiveness of Anapana, Body scan and Metta meditation techniques on chronic neck and shoulder region pain and disability in adult patients in Sri Lanka: study protocol for a cluster clinic-level randomised controlled trial

Karunanayake

Solomon-Moore

Coghill

2022

Trials

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Background Chronic neck and shoulder region pain affects many people around the world. This study aims to compare the effectiveness of three 8-week meditation training programmes (each using a different meditation technique: Anapana, Body scan or Metta) on pain and disability in a patient population affected with chronic neck and shoulder region pain, with a usual care control group and with each other. Methods This four-arm parallel clinic-level randomised controlled trial will be conducted with male and female patients aged 18–65 years, who are affected with chronic neck and shoulder region pain, and who attend one of four clinics held on four different days of the week in a single medical centre in the Colombo North region, Sri Lanka. Clinics will be considered as clusters and randomly allocated to intervention and control arms. Data will be collected using validated questionnaires, clinical examinations and focus groups. To compare primary (differences in changes in pain (Numeric Pain Rating Scale) at 8 weeks) and secondary (differences in changes in pain, physical disability, range of movement and quality of life (SF-36) at 4 and 12 weeks) outcomes between groups, a two-way ANOVA will be used if data are normally distributed. If data are not normally distributed, a nonparametric equivalent (Kruskal-Wallis) will be used. Focus group transcriptions will be thematically analysed using the Richie and Spencer model of qualitative data analysis. Discussion This is a four-arm trial which describes how three different 8-week meditation technique (Anapana, Body Scan, Metta) interventions will be implemented with adult patients affected with chronic neck and shoulder region pain. The effectiveness of each meditation intervention on the pain, physical and psychosocial disabilities of patients will be compared between groups and with a usual care control group. The results of this study will contribute to recommendations for future meditation interventions for chronic neck and shoulder pain. Trial registration ISRCTN12146140. Registered on 20 August 2021.

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“…We note that the body of work by a single scholar, Disanayake [2,36,[251][252][253][254][255][256][257][258][259][260][261], is quite prominent in the case of being used for NLP applications. For formal introduction of the language, the books by Disanayake [2] and Perera [3] are commonly used. In cases which deal with the Sinhala alphabet, the introduction by Indrasena [262] and by Disanayake [251,252] have been used.…”

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“…Sinhala 1 language, being the native language of the Sinhalese people [2][3][4], who make up the largest ethnic group of the island country of Sri Lanka, enjoys being reported as the mother tongue of Approximately 16 million people [5,6]. To give a brief linguistic background for the purpose of aligning the Sinhala language with the baseline of English, primarily it should be noted that Sinhala language belongs same the Indo-European language tree [7,8].…”

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Survey on Publicly Available Sinhala Natural Language Processing Tools and Research

Silva¹

2019

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Sinhala is the native language of the Sinhalese people who make up the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka. The language belongs to the globe-spanning language tree, Indo-European. However, due to poverty in both linguistic and economic capital, Sinhala, in the perspective of Natural Language Processing tools and research, remains a resource-poor language which has neither the economic drive its cousin English has nor the sheer push of the law of numbers a language such as Chinese has. A number of research groups from Sri Lanka have noticed this dearth and the resultant dire need for proper tools and research for Sinhala natural language processing. However, due to various reasons, these attempts seem to lack coordination and awareness of each other. The objective of this paper is to fill that gap of a comprehensive literature survey of the publicly available Sinhala natural language tools and research so that the researchers working in this field can better utilize contributions of their peers. As such, we shall be uploading this paper to arXiv and perpetually update it periodically to reflect the advances made in the field.

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Cross-cultural adaptation of the Disability of Arm, Shoulder, and Hand questionnaire (dash): English in to sinhala translation

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Tamil Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Pilot Testing of the Disabilities of Arm, Shoulder, and Hand Questionnaire

Tamil Translation, Cross-Cultural Adaptation, and Pilot Testing of the Disabilities of Arm, Shoulder, and Hand Questionnaire

Effectiveness of Anapana, Body scan and Metta meditation techniques on chronic neck and shoulder region pain and disability in adult patients in Sri Lanka: study protocol for a cluster clinic-level randomised controlled trial

Survey on Publicly Available Sinhala Natural Language Processing Tools and Research

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