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AIM: This paper reports a study which evaluated a brief, embedded academic support workshop as a strategy for improving academic writing skills in first-year nursing students with low-to-medium English language proficiency. BACKGROUND: Nursing students who speak English as a second language have lower academic success…

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this community-based study was to determine factors associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV) screening compliance and non-compliance among Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and Cambodian adults with varying levels of English language proficiency. METHODS: A cross-sectional design was used consisting…

Recent studies presenting genetic analysis of dog breeds do not focus specifically on genetic relationships among pointing dog breeds, although hunting was among the first traits of interest when dogs were domesticated. This report compares histories with genetic relationships among five modern breeds of pointing dogs…

Patients managed in European or North American cancer centres have a variety of ethnic backgrounds and primary languages. To gain insight into the impact of ethnic origin, we have investigated understanding of disease status and quality of life (QoL) for 202 patients. Patients completed questionnaires in their first la…

The present study investigated developmental changes in lexical production skills in early sequential bilinguals, in both Spanish (L1) and English (L2), exploring the effects of age, years of experience, and basic-level cognitive processing (specifically the ability to resist interference) within a timed picture-naming…

STUDY AIMS: We created an instrument to assess the supervisors' perspective on their feedback behaviour to residents and investigated its validity. Our instrument is based on the SETQsmart, a Dutch instrument for assessing the quality of supervision in clinical training and the SwissSETQ, its German adaptation for resi…

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The Falls Efficacy Scale-International (FES-I) is widely used in clinical practice, but it is unclear how each item can discriminate different levels of fall concern. This study applied item response theory (IRT) to evaluate the psychometric properties of each item in the original English versio…

BACKGROUND: Although large language models like ChatGPT-4 have demonstrated competency in English, their performance for minority groups speaking underrepresented languages, as well as their ability to adapt to specific sociocultural nuances and regional cuisines, such as those in Central Asia (for example, Kazakhstan)…

PURPOSE: The Digits-in-Noise (DIN) test is used widely in research and, increasingly, in remote hearing screening. The reported study aimed to provide basic evaluation data for browser-based DIN software, which allows remote testing without installation of an app. It investigated the effects of test language (Arabic vs…

OBJECTIVE: To assess fertility treatment outcomes according to primary language spoken in patients undergoing fertility treatment in an Australian setting. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study examined female patients who received fertility treatment through a public hospital fertility service between September 20…

BACKGROUND: Patient education contributes to improve public awareness of Helicobacter pylori. Large language models (LLMs) offer opportunities to revolutionize patient education transformatively. This study aimed to assess the quality of patient educational materials (PEMs) generated by LLMs and compared with physician…