Extending the Reach of the Flipping Stigma on its Ear Toolkit: Translating and Transforming the Toolkit for the Chinese Community
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Year 2024Type Reach Awards
- Principal investigator Mariko Sakamoto
- Co-lead(s) Karen Lok Yi Wong, Providence Health Care
- Host institution University of Victoria
- Research location University of Victoria
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Team members
- Karen Wong, Providence Health Care
- Alison Phinney, University of British Columbia
- Jim Mann, University of British Columbia
- Deborah O'Connor, University of British Columbia
- Claudia Lai, University of Victoria
- Samantha Pineda, University of British Columbia
- Lily Wong, Vancouver Coastal Health
- Lynn Jackson, University of British Columbia
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Partner(s)
Alzheimer Society of B.C.
The purpose of this knowledge translation project is to extend the reach of the Flipping Stigma on its Ear Toolkit, a research output that is a web-based education and advocacy tool developed by an Action Group of people with lived experience of dementia. Currently this toolkit (flippingstigma.com), which is focused on addressing dementia-related stigma and discrimination, is only available in English. This project will focus on translating and transforming the toolkit for the Chinese community. We will do this by working closely with a Knowledge Translation Team (KTT) of people with lived experience of dementia, care partners, health care professionals, and other members of the Chinese community. We will first arrange for a translation of the toolkit into Traditional Chinese characters. A beta version of the Chinese toolkit will be created online. Then our team will meet with the KTT over a series of online meetings to review the beta version. The goal of these KTT meetings will be to explore the beta version (translated) of the toolkit and help to transform it into a culturally relevant and sensitive tool for the Chinese community. As a final outcome of this project, a Chinese version of the toolkit will be officially released.