SIGN4 and Conference list website changes

If you want to keep up on linguistics, interpreting and translation conferences internationally the place to go is Helge Niska’s List of conferences within translation, interpreting, LSP, and terminology.  Anyway, one that isn’t listed here is SIGN4, a conference on international sign languages and deaf communities.  It’s in New Delhi in December but I’m not able to go.

We will be in South Africa then at a completely different international conference, an International Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Pretoria (I keep forgetting what it is called now).

Intimate Partner Violence Among Asian Immigrants

From the journal Trauma, Violence, and Abuse:

Intimate Partner Violence Among Asian Immigrant Communities: Health/Mental Health Consequences, Help-Seeking Behaviors, and Service Utilization
Yeon-Shim Lee and Linda Hadeed
Trauma Violence Abuse 2009;10 143-170

Clinical Pediatrics

A variety of articles from Clinical Pediatrics:

A Broken Heart—The Physician’s Role: Bereaved Parents’ Perceptions of Interactions with Physicians
Katherine L. Bright, Marlene Belew Huff, and Karen Hollon
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2009;48 376-382

Knowledge and Management of Fever Among Latino Parents
Michael Crocetti, Bruce Sabath, Lisa Cranmer, Sasha Gubser, and Danielle Dooley
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2009;48 183-189

Pathogens Causing Recurrent and Difficult-to-Treat Acute Otitis Media, 2003-2006
Michael E. Pichichero, Janet R. Casey, Alejandro Hoberman, and Richard Schwartz
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2008;47 901-906

Please Don’t Call My Mom: Pediatric Consent and Confidentiality
Courtenay R. Bruce, Stacey L. Berg, and Amy L. McGuire
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2009;48 243-246

Spanish-Speaking Patients Perceive High Quality Care in Resident Continuity Practices: A CORNET Study
Scott D. Krugman, Lilia Parra-Roide, Wendy L. Hobson, Lynn C. Garfunkel, and Janet R. Serwint
Clin Pediatr (Phila) 2009;48 304-310

American Journal of Medical Quality

Commentary: State Snapshots—A Picture of Unacceptable Variation: Are We Destined to Live With “Geography Is Destiny”?
Jeffrey Brady, Karen Ho, and Carolyn M. Clancy
American Journal of Medical Quality 2008;23 492-495

End-of-Life Decision Making in the Intensive Care Unit: Physician and Nurse Perspectives
Dan M. Westphal and Stefanie Andrea McKee
American Journal of Medical Quality 2009;24 222-228

The Inequality in Health Care Quality
Safiya Abouzaid and Vittorio Maio
American Journal of Medical Quality 2009;24 182-184

Complicating Mental Health

Dissecting the Influence of Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status on Mental Health in Young Adulthood
Krysia N. Mossakowski
Research on Aging 2008;30 649-671

Ethnography

Creole in Cape Verde: Language, identity and power
Katherine Carter and Judy Aulette
Ethnography 2009;10 213-236

Translated version of Diabetes-39

Title tells it all.  Not an easy thing to translate a test and still have it be valid.  Haven’t read the article to see if it is checked crossculturally, that is, do the items have the same signigicance in a variety of cultures that Arabic-literate patients are in.  Same question comes up across class; sometimes people with similar socioeconomic backgrounds have more in common with others from their same class although of difference nationalities than than with others sharing nationality but not class.  The poor around the world may have more in common than the very rich of their own country.

The Arabic version of Diabetes-39: psychometric properties and validation
Yousef S. Khader, Safaa Bataineh, and Waleed Batayha
Chronic Illness 2008;4 257-263

JIAPAC

In case someone hasn’t caught on yet, health literacy is impossible without language accessibility.  How important is health literacy?  Lives depend on it.

These are from the Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care.

Association Between Health Literacy and HIV Treatment Adherence: Further Evidence from Objectively Measured Medication Adherence
Seth C. Kalichman, Howard Pope, Denise White, Chauncey Cherry, Christina M. Amaral, Connie Swetzes, Jody Flanagan, and Moira O. Kalichman
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 317-323

Nonadherence Increases the Risk of Hospitalization Among HIV-Infected Antiretroviral Naïve Patients Started on HAART
Sarah J. Fielden, Melanie L. A. Rusch, Benita Yip, Evan Wood, Kate Shannon, Adrian R. Levy, Julio S. G. Montaner, and Robert S. Hogg
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 238-244

and this:

Promoting HIV Literacy
José M. Zuniga
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 215-216

and finally this:

Profile of Communication Disorders in HIV-Infected Individuals: A Preliminary Study
Mili Mary Mathew and Jayashree S. Bhat
J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic Ill) 2008;7 223-227

Journal of Pediatric Oncology

Not a beautiful presentation but this may solve my problem of getting things posted.

Qualitative Analysis of the Role of Culture in Coping Themes of Latina and European American Mothers of Children With Cancer
Alexis L. Johns, Alyssa A. Oland, Ernest R. Katz, Olle Jane Z. Sahler, Martha A. Askins, Robert W. Butler, and Michael J. Dolgin
Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing 2009;26 167-175

and two articles on Nurses’ interests in managing symptoms in their patients; these should help you know what their aims are in interventions, interactions, and interviews:

Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Management of Patients’ Symptoms
Jennifer I. Rheingans
Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing 2008;25 303-311

Relationship Between Pediatric Oncology Nurses’ Management of Patients’ Symptoms and Job Satisfaction
Jennifer I. Rheingans
Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing 2008;25 312-322

Guess I lost track of time

From being determined to post daily to nothing for four months is not a good record. Not only is it a disappointment but it also leaves me with bunches of stuff to post. So not only do I have years past to put up, I also have four months of recent things. Don’t have a solution yet. Wanted something elegant and afraid the best I’ve come up with is throw it all at the wall as quickly as possible, leave out tags and forget about coherence.

At least I’m not going to fool myself with “I’ll go back later and sort it out.”