This paper explores the mitigation of transcultural clinical barriers in a clinical setting where migrant backstretch workers receive health and wellness services from university faculty, staff, and nursing students at a nurse-led clinic located behind the stable area of a local thoroughbred racetrack. Caring for this vulnerable population is critical as these underserved individuals encounter ...

OBJECTIVE describe the process of transcultural adaptation and validation of the Stanford Presenteeism Scale for Brazilian Portuguese. METHODS Methodological study of the cultural adaptation and validation of the tool which involved 153 nursing staff and included six aspects of equivalence, obtained through the following stages: translation, first version of consent, retranslation, specialist...

OBJECTIVE To present the process of transcultural adaptation of the Richmond Compulsive Buying Scale to Brazilian Portuguese. METHODS For the semantic adaptation step, the scale was translated to Portuguese and then back-translated to English by two professional translators and one psychologist, without any communication between them. The scale was then applied to 20 participants from the gen...

Objective To perform the translation, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Quantitative Myasthenia Gravis Score (QMGS) to Brazilian Portuguese in accordance with international ethical standards. Methods The following steps were taken: (1) implementation of the translation protocol and transcultural adaptation, (2) validation of the adapted content, and (3) assessment of reliability...

This response was constructed based on my experience as a language program coordinator and my expertise in second language (L2) reading development. Because transcultural competence, as defined in the MLA Report (2007), shares much of its underlying capacities with reading ability, in principle, reading instruction could play a significant role in fostering transcultural competence. In actualit...

The term 'transcultural psychiatry' has encompassed changing notions of race, culture and psychiatry and, as a result, it is a difficult concept to define. For a long time psychiatrists and social scientists have been commenting on how the psyches and psychiatric illnesses differ in non-White populations. However, transcultural psychiatry was not created as a distinct discipline until after Wor...

(*) Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg [email protected] (**) Cluster of Excellence «Asia and Europe in a Global Context», Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Universität Heidelberg, [email protected] (***) Institute of Egyptology, Universität Heidelberg [email protected]...

OBJECTIVE The Hip Function Recovery Score questionnaire is an instrument that was developed for evaluating the functional recovery of patients over 60 years of age who undergo surgical treatment due to hip fractures. The objective of this study was to make a thorough transcultural translation of this questionnaire, with adaptation to the individual and cultural traits of the Brazilian populatio...

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and prediabetes have a major global impact through high disease prevalence, significant downstream pathophysiologic effects, and enormous financial liabilities. To mitigate this disease burden, interventions of proven effectiveness must be used. Evidence shows that nutrition therapy improves glycemic control and reduces the risks of diabetes and its complications. Accordin...


 The study exhibits the Politics of Indigenization in Kamila Shamsie’s novel Home Fire. It explores traces Greek culture contemporary society. also unearths that how affects role gender and religion. For textual analysis, takes insight from Linda Hutcheon’s Theory Adaptation. Transcultural adaptation are serving as a tool to explore study. In this research geographical changes its effect ...