The Process and Challenges in the Translation of World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL- BREF) to a Regional Language; Malayalam

A lot of research has been directed on wellbeing and disability in many non-communicable disease conditions. In this context, health-related aspects of life and quality of life (QOL) are receiving a lot of focus. Many Quality of Health measures are available, of which World Health Organization Quali...

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Autores principales: Menon, Bindu, Cherkil, Sandhya, Aswathy, S., Unnikrishnan, A. G., Rajani, G.
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23162191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.101783
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author Menon, Bindu
Cherkil, Sandhya
Aswathy, S.
Unnikrishnan, A. G.
Rajani, G.
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description A lot of research has been directed on wellbeing and disability in many non-communicable disease conditions. In this context, health-related aspects of life and quality of life (QOL) are receiving a lot of focus. Many Quality of Health measures are available, of which World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) is one of the most popular. Translating and adapting this tool is useful in view of research happening in a multicultural arena. Though translations into Hindi and other Indian languages including Tamil and Kannada have been done, a Malayalam version is not available. This paper discusses the steps adopted in this exercise and the challenges in translating WHOQOL-BREF to Malayalam from the original English version.
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spelling pubmed-34987782012-11-16 The Process and Challenges in the Translation of World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL- BREF) to a Regional Language; Malayalam Menon, Bindu Cherkil, Sandhya Aswathy, S. Unnikrishnan, A. G. Rajani, G. Indian J Psychol Med Original Article A lot of research has been directed on wellbeing and disability in many non-communicable disease conditions. In this context, health-related aspects of life and quality of life (QOL) are receiving a lot of focus. Many Quality of Health measures are available, of which World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) is one of the most popular. Translating and adapting this tool is useful in view of research happening in a multicultural arena. Though translations into Hindi and other Indian languages including Tamil and Kannada have been done, a Malayalam version is not available. This paper discusses the steps adopted in this exercise and the challenges in translating WHOQOL-BREF to Malayalam from the original English version. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3498778/ /pubmed/23162191 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.101783 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Menon, Bindu
Cherkil, Sandhya
Aswathy, S.
Unnikrishnan, A. G.
Rajani, G.
The Process and Challenges in the Translation of World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL- BREF) to a Regional Language; Malayalam
title The Process and Challenges in the Translation of World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL- BREF) to a Regional Language; Malayalam
title_full The Process and Challenges in the Translation of World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL- BREF) to a Regional Language; Malayalam
title_fullStr The Process and Challenges in the Translation of World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL- BREF) to a Regional Language; Malayalam
title_full_unstemmed The Process and Challenges in the Translation of World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL- BREF) to a Regional Language; Malayalam
title_short The Process and Challenges in the Translation of World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL- BREF) to a Regional Language; Malayalam
title_sort process and challenges in the translation of world health organization quality of life (whoqol- bref) to a regional language; malayalam
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3498778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23162191
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7176.101783
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