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28 non-English speaking participants evaluated the Gujarati (N = 13) and Punjabi (N = 15) translated versions of the adapted pamphlets.
The adapted pamphlets were disseminated as part of the initial educational component of a community-based culturally and language-sensitive cardiovascular risk factor screening and management program.
Group 1 (Table 1, N = 62) evaluated the English original and adapted pamphlets and Group 2 (Table 2, N = 37), who was non-English speaking, evaluated the translated versions of the adapted pamphlet.
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The adapted pamphlet was translated into four Indo-Asian languages.
Three participants felt that the adapted pamphlet was missing information (Table 1).
Participants fluent in English (Group 1) were given a copy of the adapted pamphlet in English to evaluate and compare with the original English pamphlet.
Thirteen percent of participants indicated that the original pamphlet was more difficult to understand than the adapted pamphlet; however, only three responded as follows: (Table 1), "Prefer more pictures", "The original was very technical" and "Not sure why".
The second tool (Table 2) was to be administered to non-English speaking participants who had read (or had the pamphlet read to them by a family member) one of the translated versions of the adapted pamphlet.
Fifty-nine participants (Group one, Table 1) read both the original and adapted English pamphlets.
Fifty six of the 59 (94.9%) participants indicated that the adapted English pamphlet helped them better understand the meaning of high blood pressure than did the original English pamphlet.
No significant changes were made to the adapted English pamphlet prior to its being sent for translation.
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