Translating critical public health

Phillipson, Andrea

doi:10.1080/09581596.2013.827326

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“…Therefore, some amount of tailoring and guidance around adaptation is needed. Calls for such guidance have been made elsewhere [48,49] and this study underscores this need.…”

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confidence: 88%

Viewing Sexual Health Education through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy: A Case Study in Chicago Public Schools

Jarpe-Ratner

Marshall

2021

IJERPH

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Comprehensive sexual health education (SHE) programs are being implemented in many state and local jurisdictions. Much research has focused on the strength and effectiveness of such programs. However, the experiences of teachers and students in their implementation is underexplored. A case study of the implementation of the SHE policy and curriculum in Chicago Public Schools sought to explore teachers’ and students’ experiences. Sixteen teachers were interviewed and five student focus groups, including 46 students, were conducted. Both teachers and students identified opportunities to improve upon the current program, including to (1) incorporate more student-centered learning opportunities and allow for tailoring to each specific group of students; (2) use discussion and dialogue to encourage students’ exploration of their own opinions and identities and development of a sense of agency over their own learning; (3) shift focus from risk reduction to a more holistic focus on healthy sexual wellbeing; and (4) directly discuss current health inequities, contributing factors, and intersectionality. These findings align with a critical pedagogical approach and underscore the need to understand SHE implementation within its sociopolitical context. Implications of the use of critical pedagogy as a framework for SHE in Chicago and beyond are discussed.

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“…Therefore, some amount of tailoring and guidance around adaptation is needed. Calls for such guidance have been made elsewhere [48,49] and this study underscores this need.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Viewing Sexual Health Education through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy: A Case Study in Chicago Public Schools

Jarpe-Ratner

Marshall

2021

IJERPH

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“…This example demonstrates the importance of conducting a formal and structured validation process. This is especially important when translating research tools into different languages and cultures [7], as well as for tool translations in public health field [9]. The validation methodology includes several methods, but each method has its advantages and disadvantages.…”

Section: The Importance Of a Validation Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bridging language barriers in developing valid health policy research tools: insights from the translation and validation process of the SHEMESH questionnaire

Shalev,

Helfrich,

Ellen

et al. 2023

Isr J Health Policy Res

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Background The use of research tools developed and validated in one cultural and linguistic context to another often faces challenges. One major challenge is poor performance of the tool in the new context. This potentially impact the legitimacy of health policy research conducted with informal adaptations of existing tools which have not been subjected to formal validation. Best practices exist to guide researchers in adapting and validating research tools effectively. We present here, as an extended example, our validation of the SHEMESH questionnaire ('Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment'; In Hebrew: 'SHE'elon Muchanut Ergunit le'SHinuy'), a Hebrew-language version of the Organizational Readiness to Change Assessment (ORCA). SHEMESH is tailored to support implementation science projects, whose aim is to promote a more rapid and complete adoption of evidence-based health policies and practices. Methods The SHEMESH included originally eleven questions from the Evidence (item 1–4) and Context (items 5–11) domains. We validated SHEMESH through the following steps: 1. Professional translation to Hebrew and discussion of the translation by multidisciplinary committee; 2. Back-translation into English by a different translator to detect discrepancies; 3. Eleven cognitive interviews with psychiatric emergency department physicians and nurses; and 4. Pilot testing and psychometric analyses, including Cronbach’s alpha for subscales and factor analyses. Results Following translation and cognitive interviews, SHEMESH was administered to 222 psychiatrists and nurses. Pearson correlation showed significant and strong correlations of items 1–4 to the Evidence construct and items 6–11 to the Context construct. Item 5 did not correlate with the other items, and therefore was removed from the other psychometric procedures and eventually from the SHEMESH. Factor analysis with the remaining 10 items yielded two factors, which together explained a total of 69.7% of variance. Cronbach's Alpha scores for the two subscales were high (Evidence, 0.887, and Context, 0.852). Conclusions This multi-step validation process of the SHEMESH questionnaire may serve as a comprehensive guideline for others who are willing to adapt research tools that were developed in other languages. Practically, SHEMESH has been validated for use in implementation science research projects in Israel.

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“…Denielle was hired to work on this project as a postdoctoral fellow, 3 and although Denielle left the project within the first year, Tim and Denielle have 2 In this respect, it continues a longstanding conversation about the relationship between social science and public health (for instance, see Bibeau 1997;Phillipson 2014;Mauthner and Doucet 2008;Dunn and Janes 1986;Packard and Epstein 1991;Inhorn 1995). maintained a close friendship.…”

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confidence: 99%

Lost in translation?

Elliott¹,

Thomas²

2017

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This rather unorthodox essay is a dialogue between an anthropologist and an epidemiologist, both of whom were involved with a large-scale collaborative ethnographic project exploring medical field studies, or 'trial communities', in western Kenya. Reflecting on their involvement with this project, the authors consider the pragmatics of what 'collaboration' represents in different disciplines and how it is enacted. The dialogue, which included a follow-up interview after the research was completed, highlights the expectations and tensions in such collaborative projects and offers the epidemiologist an opportunity to highlight the ideas, methods, and possibilities that he perceived as being 'lost in translation' between sociocultural anthropology and experimental medicine. We raise critical issues regarding the disjuncture between epidemiological and anthropological practices in research design, methods, epistemology, and collaboration, with the hopes of provoking more discussions regarding best practices in collaborative research projects.

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Translating critical public health

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

Viewing Sexual Health Education through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy: A Case Study in Chicago Public Schools

Viewing Sexual Health Education through the Lens of Critical Pedagogy: A Case Study in Chicago Public Schools

Bridging language barriers in developing valid health policy research tools: insights from the translation and validation process of the SHEMESH questionnaire

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