Media Instruksi Medis Bilingual Indonesia–Bugis dan Indonesia–Makassar dengan Glosarium Istilah Biomedis Serapan Bahasa Inggris: (Pengembangan dan Uji Awal pada Pasien Puskesmas di Kota Makassar)

Nurasia Natsir; Asyima Asyima; Syam Hermansyah; Artika Sari Anggraini

doi:10.55606/concept.v5i3.3070

Authors

Nurasia Natsir Institut Ilmu Kesehatan Pelamonia
Asyima Asyima Institut Ilmu Kesehatan Pelamonia
Syam Hermansyah Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidenreng Rappang
Artika Sari Anggraini Institut Ilmu Kesehatan Pelamonia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55606/concept.v5i3.3070

Keywords:

Bilingual Materials, Biomedical Terminology, Buginese–Makassarese, Health Literacy, Medical Instructions

Abstract

Buginese- and Makassarese-dominant patients at primary health centers (Puskesmas) in Makassar understand medical instructions far less than Indonesian-dominant patients, partly because English-derived biomedical terms are unfamiliar and lack local-language equivalents. To develop Indonesian–Buginese and Indonesian–Makassarese bilingual medical instruction materials with a trilingual glossary, assess their validity and comprehensibility, and test their preliminary effect. A three-stage development study: (1) priority term identification, forward and back translation; (2) content validation by five experts (I-CVI) and cognitive interviews (n = 15); (3) a pretest–posttest quasi-experiment with a non-equivalent control group at two Puskesmas (n = 68). Data were analyzed using t-tests, ANCOVA, and correlation. The 40-term glossary and materials covering six instruction topics achieved S-CVI/Ave of 0.93–0.97; 93.3% of items were understood after revision. Among 65 patients analyzed, the intervention group's comprehension gain (21.8 points) exceeded that of the control group (5.5 points; ANCOVA F(1,61) = 52.36; p < 0.001; η²p = 0.46). Term familiarity also increased more (p < 0.001) and correlated with comprehension (r = 0.58). Bilingual materials with a glossary are valid, comprehensible, and potentially improve comprehension among Buginese- and Makassarese-speaking patients; larger-scale trials are warranted.

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