Evaluating the Effect of Translation on Spanish Speakers' Ratings of Medicare
نویسندگان
چکیده
This study examined the equivalence of the English and Spanish versions of the Medicare Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study (CAHPS) fee-for-service (FFS) survey among 2,996 Hispanic Medicare beneficiaries. Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses indicated that with few exceptions the factor structures were very similar for the English and Spanish surveys. However, item response theory-based methods for investigating differential item functioning (DIF) revealed that several items demonstrated threshold-related DIF, suggesting that respondents in the two languages utilized the response options for the items differently. The results of this study suggest the need for future qualitative research to understand how respondents comprehend the response options in the two languages.
منابع مشابه
Cultural Influence on the Expression of Cathartic Conceptualization in English and Spanish: A Corpus-Based Analysis
This paper investigates the conceptualization of emotional release from a cognitive linguistics perspective (Cognitive Metaphor Theory). The metaphor weeping is a means of liberating contained emotions is grounded in universal embodied cognition and is reflected in linguistic expressions in English and Spanish. Lexicalization patterns which encapsulate this conceptualization i...
متن کاملAn Investigation of the Linguistic, Paralinguistic and Sociocultural Effects of Input on the Perception and Translation of Gerunds by Persian Speakers of English
In this study, it was intended to investigate the Persian native speakers’ perception of gerunds by three different elicitation techniques i.e., written, audio, and pictorial through translation. Eighty intermediate learners of English were asked to select Persian translation of the gerund formsin these elicitation techniques. They were asked to choose one option from a pair of written first la...
متن کاملEvaluating the Factors Affecting on Credit Ratings of Accepted Corporates in Tehran Securities Exchange by Using Factor Analysis and AHP
Implementation credit rating for Corporates is influenced by Different circum-stances, systems, processes, and cultures in each country. In this study, we pro-posed a Factor analysis modified approach for determine important factors on real data set of 123 accepted corporate in Tehran Securities Exchange for the years 2009-2017 of diverse range of 52 variable. We estimated the priority score fo...
متن کاملSatisfaction with provider communication among Spanish-speaking Medicaid enrollees.
OBJECTIVE To determine if differences between English- and Spanish-speaking parents in ratings of their children's health care can be explained by need for interpretive services. METHODS Using the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey-Child-Survey (CAHPS), reports about provider communication were compared among 3 groups of parents enrolled in a Medicaid managed care health plan: 1) Engl...
متن کاملL1 Perceptions of L2 Prosody: The Interplay Between Intonation, Rhythm, and Speech Rate and Their Contribution to Accentedness and Comprehensibility
This study investigates the cumulative effect of (non-)native intonation, rhythm, and speech rate in utterances produced by Spanish learners of Dutch on Dutch native listeners’ perceptions. In order to assess the relative contribution of these language-specific properties to perceived accentedness and comprehensibility, speech produced by Spanish learners of Dutch was manipulated using transpla...
متن کامل