title: Lost in translation: staff and interpreters' experiences of the edinburgh postnatal depression scale with women from refugee backgrounds.
abstract: This paper explores the cross-cultural application of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) and the difficulties associated with administration to women from refugee backgrounds. Assessing women's comprehension of individual scale items identified problems associated with "Western" terminology and concepts. Re-interpretation of discrete items on the scale was often necessary, raising doubts about the objectivity and reliability of scores. Our findings call for a closer examination of the ethnocentric assumptions underpinning the EPDS items, and the need to incorporate a more diverse range of cross-cultural understandings into future iterations.
authors.affiliation: Australian Catholic University & Mater Medical Research Institute, South Brisbane, Australia. helen.stapleton@acu.edu.au
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Stapleton
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Murphy
authors.forename: Sue
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kildea
mesh_terms: D032882:Comprehension; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011632:Public Assistance; D036301:Qualitative Research; D011793:Queensland; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012945:Social Values; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014175:Translating