"reliance on family members as interpreters"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-66647985

30 August 2023

[,,,] Subsequent investigations by the Coventry Health authority and MRC investigated participants' consent.

The 1998 MRC inquiry stated language barriers and the reliance on family members as interpreters hampered researchers' communication with participants.

It was "possible that a word did not exist for 'radiation'" in the languages spoken by the women, the committee's report said.

"It is possible that, despite the best intentions of the research team, full details of the study were not grasped by the women involved," it added. [,,,]

https://www.ukri.org/publications/radiation-in-mrc-supported-research-in-the-1950s-and-1960s/