Información para pacientes y medicina gráfica: estudio de caso sobre el cómic médico

Ana Cancho-Esquivel; Ana Muñoz-Miquel

doi:10.17533/udea.mut.v18n1a06

Authors

Ana Cancho-Esquivel Universitat Jaume I, España https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1104-298X
Ana Muñoz-Miquel Universitat Jaume I, España https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2249-545X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.mut.v18n1a06

Keywords:

Información para pacientes, medicina gráfica, cómic médico, investigación cualitativa, cáncer de cuello del útero

Abstract

The democratisation of access to information and the growing interest of patients and the general public in understanding health-related issues have increased the need to develop resources that help disseminate medical and health information. For these resources to be effective, it is essential to consider patients' needs and identify which elements will make the information understandable, empathetic, and appealing to the target audience. The main aim of this article is to explore the medical comic for patients, a genre within the field of graphic medicine, as a medium to disseminate specialised information and contribute to disease prevention. To achieve this, a case study focused on the prevention and screening of cervical cancer (CC) was conducted, employing various qualitative methods. A corpus of medical comics was analysed to determine the main characteristics of this genre. Then, a focus group with healthcare professionals and interviews with potential patients were carried out to identify the latter’s needs and preferences regarding receiving information about the disease. Finally, all the obtained information was triangulated, and an ad hoc comic was created, whose suitability was tested with the participating patients. This study sheds light on the potential of the comic, for which multimodality plays an essential role in enhancing the understanding of specialised information, and provides recommendations for its creation, which may be useful for translators, writers, and healthcare professionals.

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Author Biographies

Ana Cancho-Esquivel, Universitat Jaume I, España

Ana Cancho Esquivel was born in Maguilla, Spain in 1999. She has always had a passion for arts and languages, so she decided to study her bachelor’s degree in Translation and Interpreting at the University of Cordoba. After discovering her liking for scientific translation, she graduated with a master’s degree in Medical Translation in 2022. In 2021 she proofread and translated her family’s winery site web and she realised she also wanted to pursue a career in editing. In 2019 she was a student research assistant in the area of Linguistics, where she did reviews and synthesis of scientific articles as well as corpora compilation in English and French, and she participated developing a database on scientific publications. Since 2021 she has been a student research assistant in Translation and Interpreting, where she has investigated multilingual inclusive language and brainstorming influence in consecutive interpreting, and she has translated a project on the genomics of fungus populations that causes maize anthracnose.

Ana is an English and French to Spanish translator and a proofreader, and her specialisation areas are winery, sworn and medical translation. All the knowledge she acquired during her training has allowed her to develop an extensive capacity for documentation, resolution, and proofreading. With an eye towards the future, Ana is considering investigate about graphic medicine and continue with her translation and editing career.

Her specialty areas are:
• Translation & Interpreting
• Inclusive language
• Vitiviniculture
• Art history

Ana Muñoz-Miquel, Universitat Jaume I, España

Ana Muñoz-Miquel is Associate Professor in the Department of Translation and Communication at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI), where she teaches in the Degree in Translation and Interpreting and the Master's Degree in Medical-Health Translation. Her thesis, focused on the profile and competences of the medical translator, was awarded the Extraordinary Doctorate Prize of the UJI and the Prize for the Best Thesis of the Biennium awarded by the Iberian Association of Translation and Interpreting Studies (AIETI). During her career, she has worked as a freelance translator and has been a predoctoral and postdoctoral researcher at the UJI. Currently, she is a member of the GENTT research group (UJI) and collaborator of the CiTrans group (Universitat de València). Her main lines of work include medical translation, machine translation in healthcare contexts, competency-based training and patient-oriented communication, topics on which she has published in journals such as Target, Interpreter and Translator Trainer, Linguistica Antverpiensia, Trans, Sendebar, JoSTrans, Hermēneus, Hermes or Panace@. She is the author of La traducción médico-sanitaria: profesión y formación (Comares, 2023) and co-author of Patient-centered translation and communication (Routledge, 2024).

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