ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2026
When Distress Goes Unseen: Mental Health Recognition Failures in Language-Discordant Consultations.
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objectivesEarly recognition of psychological distress is an important component of integrated healthcare, particularly among patients experiencing social and linguistic vulnerability. This hypothesis-generating study examined how observable expressions of distress were conveyed and addressed in multilingual hospital encounters.
methodsAn exploratory qualitative analysis was conducted using fifteen interpreter-mediated consultations purposively selected from the Intercomsalud corpus because verified transcripts were available. The sample included consultations in Arabic (n = 6), Chinese (n = 2), English (n = 5), Russian (n = 1) and Ukrainian (n = 1). Coding distinguished (1) explicit verbal distress, (2) observable emotional cues, and (3) researcher-inferred distress; it also described full, partial or non-relay and the healthcare professional's observable response within the recording.
resultsIn the analysed consultations, biomedical and procedural information was generally conveyed in recognisable form. Some explicit distress expressions and observable cues were reduced, reformulated or not explored, whereas other encounters showed sustained acknowledgement. The psychology consultation provided a suggestive, uncontrolled contrast and cannot establish a department effect.
conclusionsThe cases illustrate that clinical-content relay and affective recognition can be examined as related dimensions, but the present sample primarily documents accurate clinical-content relay with variable affective recognition and does not empirically validate their full independence. Larger, independently coded studies with follow-up data are needed.
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