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Older Chinese immigrants are a growing population in the United States who experience multiple healthcare communication barriers such as limited English proficiency and low health literacy. Each of these obstacles has been associated with poor health outcomes but less is known about their effects in combination. This s…

Shuxue, as a core concept of acupuncture-moxibustion, is explained with different terms in each era. The term standardization of shuxue has drawn high attention from medical practitioners and from the government in ancient and modern times; and a lot of research has been done over a long period. On the basis of systema…

BACKGROUND: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used by patients for medical information and reassurance. In psychodermatology, where communication must address psychological distress, stigma, and functional impact, the safety and quality of AI-generated educational content have not been systematically assess…

BACKGROUND: The current project was a prospective feasibility study using a dynamic assessment of statistical learning of a novel morpheme for the identification of developmental language disorder (DLD) in Spanish-English-speaking preschoolers. The aims were to (a) create a reliable dynamic assessment and (b) determine…

BACKGROUND: Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome affecting 2-4% of the global population. Social media platforms host patient narratives and public discussions that can complement traditional evidence. OBJECTIVE: To characterize English-language YouTube discourse on fibromyalgia over 2015-2025, describing longitudi…

Learning to read triggers a cascade of changes in children's minds and brains, changes that lead to the formation of the "reading brain". Importantly, the developmental trajectory of these changes differs across languages. The development of phonological literacy skills comes first for learners of alphabetic languages…

This study investigates the relationship between Chinese students' intentions to learn English and their actual learning behaviors, emphasizing the mediating role of attitude and the moderating influence of institutional support. This research aims to (i) investigate whether students' learning behaviors are directly in…

PURPOSE: With over one third of students in the United States exposed to languages other than English at home, there is a growing need to examine the role of bilingual exposure across settings on bilingual language performance. This study explored the longitudinal relationship between language exposure at home and scho…

To determine their academic strengths and weaknesses, students compare their own performance across domains (e.g., math vs. English), a process referred to as dimensional comparisons. For example, individuals' higher-scoring English performance may negatively affect their math motivational beliefs (competence self-conc…

Recognizing talkers' identity via speech is an important social skill in interpersonal interaction. Behavioral evidence has shown that listeners can identify better the voices of their native language than those of a non-native language, which is known as the language familiarity effect (LFE). However, its underlying n…

OBJECTIVE: Social media is part of current health communications. This research aims to delve into the effects of social contagion, biased assimilation, and homophily in building and changing health opinions on social media. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Conversations about COVID-19 vaccination on English and Spanish Twitter…

INTRODUCTION: The comprehension and production of connected language are essential for effective communication. However, few assessment and intervention programs requiring connected language have been made available in Brazilian Portuguese. One connected language sampling procedure, the Story Retell Procedure (SRP), ha…

BACKGROUND: For patients with limited English proficiency, language poses a unique challenge in patient-provider communication. Using certified medical interpretation (CMI) can be difficult in time- and resource-limited settings including trauma. We hypothesized that there would be limited use of CMI during major traum…

BACKGROUND: Injuries in professional football lead to reduced team performance and large financial losses. The aim of this study was to analyse injuries in the two best team competitions in the world (LaLiga and Premier League), establishing similarities and differences, as well as determining injury causation patterns…

Previous research has shown that as the level of background noise increases, auditory word recognition performance drops off more rapidly for bilinguals than monolinguals. This disproportionate bilingual deficit has often been attributed to a presumed increase in cross-language activation in noise, although no studies…

BACKGROUND: Patient race, ethnicity, and culture including language are intertwined and may influence patient reporting of pain severity. PURPOSE: To describe documentation of patient's self-reported pain presence and severity by race, ethnicity, and language, specifically, Spanish, Hmong, Lao, or Khmer requiring an i…

BACKGROUND: Hispanics in the United States are disproportionately affected by Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Little is known about the impact of acculturation on cognitive performance. OBJECTIVE: This study examined the association between acculturation and cognitive performance among older Hispanics. MET…

INTRODUCTION: The episodic or on-demand administration of clotting factor concentrates in hemophilia patients in the event of hemorrhage is employed to restore hemostasis. Adherence to on-demand treatments needs to be assessed in order to improve patient management, avoiding adverse effects and serious clinical complic…

OBJECTIVE: Hispanics/Latinos are the largest and fastest-growing minority population in the United States. To facilitate appropriate outcome assessment of this expanding population, the NIH Toolbox for Assessment of Neurological and Behavioral Function® (NIH Toolbox®) was developed with particular attention p…

BACKGROUND: Adult basic education (ABE) is the national system that offers educational services in English language development, reading, writing, math, technology, and communications to adults with low literacy, limited English, or both. These services range from basic levels to high school equivalency, with specialty…