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Translation Guidelines

July 29, 2010

* Support Documents for Performing Translations *

Title	Description	Modified Date
Overview: Translation and Cultural Equivalency	somewhat outdated but still useful as a starting point.	12/6/2009
Guidelines for Establishing Culturally Equivalent Instruments	revised Dec 1, 2009	1/8/2010
Summary Report Logs	zip file; revised December 1, 2009	12/6/2009
Translation and Adaptation of the RDC/TMD		9/5/2007
Summary Report Log B: Patient Questionnaire		11/2/2008
Summary Report Log B: Examiner Commands		11/2/2008
Expanded RDC Examination Specifications		9/5/2007
Sample form: Patient History Questionnaire		9/5/2007
Sample form: RDC examination data collection		9/5/2007
Sample Title Page		9/5/2007

Translation Support

Support documents for creating new translations include the following:

Overview: annotated list of the documents on this page
Guidelines applicable to any instrument
Translation development Logs, for self-documentation of the translation process
Notes specific to translation of the RDC/TMD
Initial Logs for specific RDC/TMD components

Note that for new translations to be posted on the Consortium web site, they must adhere to the standards as presented in the Guidelines and they must be documented using the Logs.

For more general information regarding new translations or other translation questions, contact: Dr. Richard Ohrbach, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY U.S. (e-mail: ohrbach@buffalo.edu; phone: 716-829-3590; FAX: 716-829-3554)

Some of these documents are posted as MS Word files; the remainder of these documents are posted in the PDF file format, therefore you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader (verson 5.0 or higher) installed on your computer to access these files. The Acrobat Reader can be downloaded free from Adobe.com or click on this icon.