Foreign patients and medical staff who need medical interpreters
Conditions
Interventions
After admission to the hospital, when a medical worker gives patients explanation, he/she will have conversation with patients using MOSHI MOSHI Interactive (using a medical interpreter). After usin
Sponsors
Gunma University
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1) Adults and children who cannot speak Japanese so well but have ability of judgment . 2) Adults and children who cannot communicate well in Japanese language with medical workers when visiting a medical institution in Japan and receiving treatment or nursing care. 3) Adults and children whose native language is English, Spanish, Portuguese or Chinese, or who can sufficiently understand his/her disease and the treatment if explanation is given in any of these 4 languages. 4) Adults who themselves are not patient but are parents or custodians of children suffering disease and who satisfy the conditions of the above 1) to 3). 5)Doctors or nurses working at Gunma University Hospital
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Foreign patients who can communicate in Japanese as well as Japanese
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| After using MOSHI-MOSHI Interactive, answer the questionnaire about the effect of the App. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactMegumi Nagamine
Graduate School of Health Science, Gunma University Student in the latter period of the third year of Doctors Course of Nursing
Outcome results
None listed