College of International Studies, Southwest University, China.
Disasters. 2025 Jan;49(1):e12653. doi: 10.1111/disa.12653. Epub 2024 Jul 23.
This study explores the South Korean Deaf community's response to sign language interpreting during the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) health crisis, focusing on individual factors affecting the signers' comprehension. The data were collected from a mobile-based questionnaire survey conducted among 401 Deaf adults; binary probit modelling was adopted to analyse the data. The major findings are: (i) 59.9 per cent of the respondents understood less than 70 per cent of the interpreting; (ii) males and urban residents tend to understand better; (iii) younger people (less than 50 years) and signers with a Bachelor's degree or higher are likely to have lower comprehension; and (iv) Deaf adults who visited a doctor after the COVID-19 outbreak tended to have lower comprehension. The findings demonstrate that individual characteristics, including age, impact significantly on the extent to which Deaf individuals understand the sign language interpreting of COVID-19 information, indicating that steps are needed to achieve a Deaf-inclusive society during a health disaster.
本研究探讨了韩国聋人社区在 COVID-19（冠状病毒病 2019）健康危机期间对口译员的反应，重点关注影响手语理解的个人因素。数据来自对 401 名成年聋人进行的基于移动的问卷调查；采用二元概率模型分析数据。主要发现有：（一）59.9%的受访者理解不到 70%的口译内容；（二）男性和城市居民往往理解得更好；（三）年轻人（50 岁以下）和具有学士或更高学位的手语使用者理解能力可能较低；（四）COVID-19 爆发后看过医生的聋人理解能力较低。研究结果表明，个体特征，包括年龄，对手语理解 COVID-19 信息的程度有重大影响，这表明在健康灾难期间需要采取措施实现聋人包容的社会。
