Hi community,
We are screening upwards of 300,000 patients in our primary care system at Montefiore, and we are wondering if anyone has translated the ACEs questionnaire into Braille?
Many thanks,
Rahil Briggs
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The World Health Organization's (WHO) ACE International Questionaire was available on WHO's website in over 100 languages, but I haven't recently checked to ascertain in any are available in Braille/English. Our (U.S.) National Federation of the Blind (NFB) may have tools to translate it, however Many of the ACE questionaires are intended to be "administered" by someone, rather than 'self-administered'--especially by persons younger than eighteen years of age.
How Vermont--whose 2013 legislature did/did not address this issue in House Bill 762, requiring all Vt. Health care providers to screen all patients, regardless of age, for ACEs, may offer some guidance in this, for Montefiore. At least one ACEsConnection member from Vermont was on a Vermont [2013 house bill 762] committee to address this. The primary sponsor of the bill is a pediatrician/legislator.
The CDC/Kaiser ACE study availed 24/7 staff answering a pager-if any of the 18,000+ Kaiser patients needed a resource to call if they were "triggered" by any of the ACE questions. After one year, the staff members on pager duty reported on the number of calls they'd received. (I'd read it was zero, but I could be mistaken). Jane Stevens of ACEsConnection.com, may have further pertinent information concerning this issue.
Thanks so much, Robert,
Jane was actually the one that encouraged me to post it. We are screening 300,000 patients per, and doing it via self report (parents answer for children, and adult patients answer for themselves). So while someone else reading it to a visually impaired patient is always a possibility, it goes against our standard protocol.
I looked on the WHO website and saw a number of languages, but not Braille. Please do not let me know if NFP might be interested? All the best,
Rahil
