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INTRODUCTION: Telehealth is the use of electronic information and technology for long-distance clinical care. In direct-to-patient (DTP) telehealth, the patient initiates care from a personal computer or mobile device to a medical provider. While information on standard clinic-to-clinic telehealth exists, less is known…

BACKGROUND: Bilingual speakers often have difficulty understanding speech in noisy and acoustically degraded conditions. PURPOSE: The first aim was to examine the potential source(s) of the difficulties that English-proficient bilingual listeners experience when hearing English speech in noise. The second aim was to a…

OBJECTIVE: The Newest Vital Sign© (NVS) was developed in the USA to measure patient health literacy in clinical settings. We adapted the NVS for use in Canada, in English and French, and created a computerized version. Our objective was to evaluate the reliability of the Canadian NVS as a self-administered compute…

OBJECTIVES: The objectives were to describe the oral health status of immigrants in the USA, describe the association between acculturation and oral health by accounting for the effects of depression and to explore the effects of interaction between acculturation and depression on the oral health of immigrants. METHOD…

BACKGROUND: Individuals with limited English proficiency experience poor patient-clinician communication. Most studies of language concordance have not measured clinician non-English-language proficiency. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the accuracy of the self-assessment of non-English-language proficiency by clinicians comp…

BACKGROUND: Accurate transcription of pathology gross examination dictation is important for clinical documentation, but multilingual dictation remains challenging in settings where clinicians mix Chinese and English while final pathology reports are written in English. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate whether…

The epidemiology of injuries in English women's professional football is yet to be investigated. Therefore, the aim was to examine the incidence, severity, and burden of injury in English women's domestic football. Time-loss injuries, and match and training exposure, were collected by club medical staff across 5 season…

AIM: This study aimed to compare characteristics of nurse educators, factors related to teaching global nursing, contents of global education and support and the level of burden of global education and factors related to the burden between nurse educators among top nursing universities in Japan and four English-speakin…

BACKGROUND: Accessible nutrition resources tailored to patients with cancer, caregivers of cancer survivors, and people interested in cancer prevention are limited. Cook for Your Life is a bilingual (ie, English and Spanish) website providing science-based, nutrition information for people affected by cancer. OBJECTIV…

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) has become an invaluable tool for researchers in many fields. The IAT is a sorting task that measures the strength of automatic associations between targets (e.g., flowers / insects) and attributes (e.g., pleasant / unpleasant). Several programs exist to create and run IAT studies, a…

INTRODUCTION: This study examines the socio-emotional and interactional dynamics shaping young learners' engagement with the 5th-grade English curriculum in public secondary school contexts in Türkiye. Drawing on a responsive curriculum evaluation approach and grounded in classroom ecology and socio-cultural learn…

In many languages, reciprocal meanings are expressed either by grammatical means or by using lexical predicates. The grammatical strategy is productive and may involve derivational affixes (Swahili) or pronouns (English) with transitive forms, whereas lexical reciprocity is expressed by a restricted class of intransiti…

BackgroundPrediabetes is a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The transition from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes is inequitable, with Latinos reporting an increased risk than other groups. Stress can affect this transition; however, we have no means of measuring prediabetes-related stress.Research Design and Study Sample…

In recent years, an increasing number of deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) undergraduates have chosen to study in STEM fields and pursue careers in research. Yet, very little research has been undertaken on the barriers and inclusive experiences often faced by D/HH undergraduates who prefer to use spoken English in resea…

The importance of self-related constructs in predicting academic achievement has been increasingly emphasized in recent decades. Typically, bivariate associations of self-related variables with achievements have been reported. Research quantifying the combined predictive power of more than two self-variables has been s…

Spatial release from masking (SRM) in speech-on-speech tasks has been widely studied in the horizontal plane, where interaural cues play a fundamental role. Several studies have also observed SRM for sources located in the median plane, where (monaural) spectral cues are more important. However, a relatively unexplored…

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The aim of this study was to assess the quality and content of videos on Douyin and TikTok for their educational role on early screening of rectal cancer (RC). METHODS: We conducted a search for videos related to RC on the Douyin and TikTok applications on 20 April 2023. The search was conducted in…

This research paper investigates the efficacy of various machine learning models, including deep learning and hybrid models, for text classification in the English and Bangla languages. The study focuses on sentiment analysis of comments from a popular Bengali e-commerce site, "DARAZ," which comprises both Bangla and t…

AIM: This study explored the experiences of prelicensure nursing students for whom English is an additional language when preparing for and taking course examinations. BACKGROUND: English-as-an-additional-language students face challenges related to language comprehension on nursing examinations. Recognizing their uni…