Publications by authors named "Dikul R Baker"
Article Synopsis
- Health services want to understand how patients feel about their care, especially those who speak First Nations languages, to make improvements.
- Researchers worked with language experts and health staff to create surveys that are accurate and meaningful for these patients by translating and testing them.
- They found big challenges in translating survey questions because some English phrases don't mean the same in First Nations languages, and cultural differences also made it hard to ask questions in the right way.
Introduction: Questioning is a key method in general information-seeking behaviour and teaching used by the dominant culture in Australia. Within an Australian health context the fundamental diagnostic tool used by medical staff is the biomedical interview or history taking, which is based on a battery of direct questions. Similarly, many health professionals rely on patient questions to prompt the sharing of information, or to make them aware of gaps in communication.
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