Course content and educational materials were translated from English into Chinese by bilingual neonatal practitioners.
Other means of recruitment included church newsletters, stories and advertisements in ethnic media, and liaison with local bilingual medical practitioners.
The second was three groups of health professionals – bilingual/bicultural workers, bilingual general practitioners and geriatricians – who were accessed by one-to-one interviews.
The study used a qualitative design and the methods included focus groups with family carers and one-to-one interviews with bilingual/bicultural community workers, bilingual general practitioners and geriatricians.
*The training of bilingual mental health practitioners focuses on creating new directions in the delivery of services that take into account a minority population's migratory status, financial burdens, language barriers and cultural differences and values.
The bilingual speakers, be they practitioners or patients, are likely to have mastered more than the two languages focused on here.
Despite advantages for access of seeing genetics practitioners with bilingual skills in pilot community clinics, people of South Asian origin still experienced uncertainty, feeling information they were given was too vague.
While age may affect the sufficiency of the workforce overall, bilingual capability is a practitioner characteristic that may directly affect access to care.
Twelve percent of practitioners report being bilingual or multilingual, representing 37 different languages (Table 1).
