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PURPOSE: Mental health information appears on social media in varying levels of quality and may or may not be productive information to users, particularly in relation to healthcare decision-making and community living among diverse populations coping with mental health problems. To better understand the mental health…

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…

BACKGROUND: This article presents evaluation findings of the India English Language Programme, an innovative programme aimed at providing Indian nurses with an opportunity to participate in an ethical and mutually beneficial learning programme aimed at supporting migration into the United Kingdom's National Health Serv…

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)…

This paper uses an improved multiorganizational particle population optimization algorithm to conduct an in-depth analysis and study of an online English teaching model and uses the altered model for practical applications. The model building elements are extracted from it for the initial construction of a blended lear…

BACKGROUND: The Composite Autonomic Symptom Score 31 (COMPASS 31) is a validated, 31-item self-assessment questionnaire assessing autonomic symptoms in six domains, orthostatic intolerance, vasomotor, secretomotor, gastrointestinal, bladder, and pupillomotor function. So far, there is no validated German COMPASS 31 ver…

The present study investigated whether morphological processing in reading is influenced by the orthographic consistency of a language or its morphological complexity. Developing readers in Grade 3 and skilled adult readers participated in a reading aloud task in four alphabetic orthographies (English, French, German,…

Technology plays an increasingly important role in educational practice, including interventions for struggling learners (Torgesen et al., 2010; de Souza et al., 2018). This study focuses on the efficacy of tablet-based applications (see Word Reading, Grapholearn, and an experimental word-level program) for the purpose…

OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether patients with English as their second language have similar acute coronary syndrome (ACS) outcomes to people whose first language is English. DESIGN: Retrospective, observational study, using admissions, treatment and follow-up data. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: A total of 6304 subject…

While the need for understanding the issue of health literacy among ethnic minority groups with limited English skills is rapidly increasing in the US, it is difficult to find valid and useful health literacy tools for certain linguistic minorities. This study was designed to validate the Korean translation of Rapid Es…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the association of limited English proficiency (LEP) and physician language concordance with patient reports of clinical interactions. METHODS: Cross-sectional survey of 8638 Kaiser Permanente Northern California patients with diabetes. Patient responses were used to define English proficiency and…

BACKGROUND: English proficiency may be important in explaining disparities in health and health care access among older adults. SUBJECTS: Population-based representative sample (N=18,659) of adults age 55 and older from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey. METHODS: We examined whether health care access and h…

BACKGROUND: English and Chinese are two of the most widely used primary languages in the world. Patients in many cancer centers have a variety of ethnic backgrounds and primary languages. The comparability of version 4 of the English and Chinese versions of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) a…