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Objective cognitive tasks in the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) are used to classify probable dementia in Medicare beneficiaries. Whether these tasks measure the same latent construct with comparable precision across English-proficiency groups has not been established. While the NHATS offers English and…

INTRODUCTION: Australia's population is culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD), with 31% of Australians born overseas and 22% speaking a language other than English at home. However, there is limited evidence on how CALD backgrounds influence access to kidney replacement therapy (KRT) and outcomes. We examined pa…

A recent genome-wide association study on dyslexia in 51,800 affected European adults and 1,087,070 controls detected 42 genome-wide significant single nucleotide variants (SNPs). The association between rs2624839 in SEMA3F and reading fluency was replicated in a Chinese cohort. This study explores the genetic overlap…

Meta-analysis plays a crucial role in syntheses of quantitative evidence in ecology and biodiversity conservation. The reliability of estimates in meta-analyses strongly depends on unbiased sampling of primary studies. Although earlier studies have explored potential biases in ecological meta-analyses, biases in report…

BACKGROUND: While it is known that the majority of pages on the World Wide Web are in English, little is known about the preferred language of users searching for health information online. OBJECTIVES: (1) To help global and domestic publishers, for example health and food agencies, to determine the need for translati…

OBJECTIVE: ChatGPT has gained popularity for its user-friendly applications in medicine, including otolaryngology. However, concerns have surfaced about accuracy of information, especially in languages other than English. This study assessed ChatGPT's proficiency in answering questions in English and French about benig…

PURPOSE: The Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) was developed to facilitate symptom assessment among pediatric patients receiving cancer treatments; limited translations are available. The objective was to describe, among non-English pediatric patients receiving cancer treatments and non-English guardians, t…

OBJECTIVE: This cross-sectional website analysis aimed to determine the readability and quality of English and Spanish websites pertaining to the prevention of noise-induced hearing loss. STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional website analysis. SETTING: Various online search engines. METHODS: We queried four popular search e…

MOTIVATION: Wikipedia is a vital open educational resource in computational biology. The quality of computational biology coverage in English-language Wikipedia has improved steadily in recent years. However, there is an increasingly large 'knowledge gap' between computational biology resources in English-language Wiki…

PURPOSE: This research seeks to conceptualize foreign language listening anxiety (FLLA) and provide its measurement, and further explore the influences of FLLA on self-perceived listening performance. METHODS: In Study 1, semi-structured interviews explored FLLA-arousal situations. Follow-up reliability and validity t…

INTRODUCTION: To complete a culturally appropriate translation of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Quality of Life Questionnaire Cervical Cancer module (QLQ-CX24) from English to Chichewa (one of the official languages of Malawi) in preparation for postsurgical outcomes research in…

OBJECTIVES: This study measured whether and to what degree Readable English effectively improves reading fluency and comprehension skills of adolescent learners. METHODS: This experimental study (N = 855) measured the efficacy of two different multiple component reading programs for students in grades three, four, and…

OBJECTIVE: This study provided a content analysis of English and Chinese YouTube videos related to dental radiation safety. METHOD: The search string, entered in English and Chinese respectively, was: (dental x-ray safe). The searches were performed and exported with Apify YouTube scraper. By screening the resultant v…

OBJECTIVES: To characterize the relationship between non-English language preference (NELP) and hospital outcomes including length of stay (LOS), time of discharge, emergency department return visits, readmissions, and cost for pediatric general medicine inpatients. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective analysis at an…

OBJECTIVE: Prior studies comparing subjective and objective health literacy measures have yielded inconsistent results. Our aim was to examine the concordance between Newest Vital Sign (NVS) and Brief Health Literacy Screen (BHLS) scores in a large cohort of English- and Spanish-speaking urban Hispanic adults. METHODS…

BACKGROUND: Online assessment of narrative production and comprehension became an important component of language assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to establish quantitative measures of narrative macrostructure in the production and comprehension of adult Irish-English bilinguals in an online as…

BACKGROUND: The Adult Dyspraxia/DCD Checklist (ADC) is the only existing self-report questionnaire to screen adults for potential Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). It was developed in English and Hebrew, however, its factor structure has not yet been assessed. AIMS: The goals of the current study were to (1)…