ArticleJournal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates & Practitioners
Distressing Discussions in Pediatric Interpreted Medical Encounters: A Qualitative Study of Medical Interpreter Perspectives on Clinician Communication Practices.
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- Interventions for improving adherence to amblyopia treatments in children.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Remote interpretation during in-person medical encounters: Perspectives from professional Spanish-language interpreters.Patient education and counseling · 2026Article
- Pain disparities attributed to linguistic minoritization in health care settings.The journal of pain · 2025Review
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Abstract
introductionThis study explores pediatric medical interpreters' perspectives on clinician communication practices in medical encounters characterized by distressing content and difficult discussions.
methodIn this interpretative phenomenological analysis, 13 Spanish-English interpreters at a midwestern pediatric hospital were purposively recruited and, in 2021-2022, completed a demographic survey and semistructured interview on communication in distressing interpreted medical encounters.
resultsParticipants described clinician practices for effective cross-cultural interpreted communication. Practices align with recommendations on prebriefing, debriefing, jargon, stakeholder positioning, and teamwork. Novel findings relate to encounters with multiple parties, multilingual patients with monolingual parents, and coordination among clinicians. DISCUSSION: Findings corroborate recommendations for interpreted communication best practices, extend them to distressing pediatric encounters, and offer recommendations for clinicians using interpreting services in distressing encounters. Participants' insights are distilled into a series of clinician best practices for high-quality interpreted communication during difficult discussions and for strengthening language access services in pediatric medical settings.
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