The purpose of this book is to provide a general overview of the translation and cultural adaptation process of clinical research survey instruments with a focus on the linguistic aspects of the process. Survey instruments here refer to any text, printed or electronic, prepared in order to collect information in a clinical research setting. This broad definition covers patient-reported, clinician-reported, and caregiver-reported outcomes measures, as well as patient diaries, indexes, scales, symptom checklists, etc. The first part of the book offers a brief introduction to selected linguistic aspects of translation in order to provide definitions of key linguistic concepts and to set a tentative theoretical framework for the translation and cultural adaptation process. The second part describes the main steps used in the translation process. The discussion of each step includes the definition of its most important component, a list of key professional involved in implementing the step, a detailed critical description of the process involved in the implementation of the step, as well as a brief overview of areas where more research is needed. The last chapters cover the translation of electronic versions of clinical research survey instruments, with a brief discussion of the necessary modification of each step in order to meet the needs of an electronic instrument translation.
About the Author: Sergiy Tyupa is a professional medical translator with extensive (since 2001) experience in translation and linguistic validation of PRO and QoL measures into Ukrainian and Russian for Ukraine. In 2012, Sergiy defended a PhD thesis on backtranslation at the Chair for Translation Studies and Intercultural Communication at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where he currently holds a position of an Assistant Professor. Sergiy's research interests include translation quality assurance and quality assessment, back translation, cognitive and linguistic aspects of translation, patient interviewing, translation and adaptation of electronic measures.Diane Wild is a researcher with particular expertise in the translation and linguistic validation of patient reported outcome measures. She has published widely in the areas of patient reported outcomes and linguistic validation. She was the lead author on a translation and linguistic validation best practices paper in 2005 which has become the industry standard for methods in this area. Diane was the founding Director of Oxford Outcomes, a multi-national outcomes research consultancy. Currently Diane is working as an independent patient reported outcome and linguistic validation consultant whilst studying for a MSc in Medical Anthropology