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{"title":"Exploring pragmatic acts in Ghanaian midwives’ Facebook posts","authors":"Rachel G.A. Thompson ,&nbsp;Jemima Asabea Anderson ,&nbsp;Ebenezer Agbaglo ,&nbsp;Jerry John Ouner ,&nbsp;Julene K. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100048","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100048","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent times, Ghanaian midwives are adopting social media to engage in outreach, patient education, and health and wellbeing promotion services. This study explores the pragmatic acts used by Ghanaian midwives in their educational posts targeted at pregnant women and women who have newborns (new mothers) on Facebook. Using the directed content analysis method, the study identified five types of pragmatic acts in the midwives posts. They are the introductory acts, explanatory acts, prescriptive acts, psychological acts, and closing acts. The findings show that during online maternal and child healthcare services, Ghanaian midwives mainly perform explanatory acts, prescriptive acts, and psychological acts to inform, guide, and support pregnant women and new mothers on Facebook. The use of social media for promoting maternal and child health care, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, is a relatively new phenomenon. However, it has the potential to provide immense help and support pregnant women and new mothers if used to complement in-person antenatal and postpartum care visits.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100048"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143852265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Language improves health and wellbeing in Indigenous communities: A scoping review","authors":"Louise Harding ,&nbsp;Ryan DeCaire ,&nbsp;Ursula Ellis ,&nbsp;Karleen Delaurier-Lyle ,&nbsp;Julia Schillo ,&nbsp;Mark Turin","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100047","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100047","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><div>Indigenous languages in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States are endangered due to colonial policies which promote English language dominance. While Indigenous communities know the importance of language for their wellbeing, this topic has only recently received attention in scholarship and public policy. This scoping review synthesizes and assesses existing literature on the links between the vitality of Indigenous languages and health or wellness in four English-speaking settler colonial countries.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Our interdisciplinary research team followed JBI methodology for scoping reviews. Key databases searched included MEDLINE, PsycInfo, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. Searches were restricted to English language literature. The last search was on February 8, 2021. Quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted to categorize and elucidate the nature of the links reported.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Over 10,000 records were reviewed and 262 met the inclusion criteria – 70 % academic and 30 % gray literature. The largest number of studies focus on Canadian contexts (40.1 %). 78 % of the original research studies report only supportive links between Indigenous languages and health, while 98 % of the literature reviews report supportive links. The most significant aspects of health reported to be positively related to language are outcomes from health care, education and promotion initiatives; overall health, wellness, resilience and healing; and mental, cognitive, and psychological health and development. The results of the remaining original research studies are mixed (10 %), statistically non-significant (6 %), adverse (5 %) and neutral (1 %).</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>The results of this scoping review suggest that a vast body of academic and gray literature exists to support that language is a determinant of health for Indigenous peoples in the contexts studied. Recommendations for harnessing the healing effects of language include increasing tangible support to language programs, delivering linguistically tailored health care, and advancing knowledge through community-engaged research and education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100047"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143838642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Study on the effect of embodiment on Lexicosemantic Aging: Evidence based on the processing of Chinese action verbs","authors":"Meng Jiang ,&nbsp;Qi Luo ,&nbsp;Xia Wang ,&nbsp;Zhenling Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100049","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100049","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Previous studies have extensively found that language is embodied and language undergoes aging, yet little attention has been paid to correlate the two issues. To address this gap, the present study put forward the Embodiment Effect on Lexicosemantic Aging (EELA) Hypothesis, which posits that words with stronger magnitude of embodiment are less susceptible to aging, whereas words with weaker magnitude of embodiment exhibit greater aging effects. To test this hypothesis, the present study employed three categories of action verbs, namely, the <em>limb</em> action verb, the <em>face</em> action verb, and the <em>natural-change</em> action verb, which were graded in embodiment, and recruited three age groups of adults (i.e., young, middle-aged and elderly ones) to perform a semantic categorization task. The results revealed a systematic processing hierarchy, with action verbs with the largest embodiment magnitude (<em>limb</em> action verbs) underwent the least aging, action verbs with the second largest embodiment magnitude (<em>face</em> action verbs) underwent more aging, action verbs with the smallest embodiment magnitude (<em>natural-change</em> action verbs) underwent the largest aging. These findings provide support for the EELA Hypothesis.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100049"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143834754","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A journey from darkness to dawn: Metaphoric variation in depression recovery stories posted on Chinese Wechat subscription accounts","authors":"Lin Lin ,&nbsp;Rui Zhou ,&nbsp;Jia-jia Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2025.100046","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite volumes of research on depression-related conceptual metaphors and the therapeutic function of client-generated metaphors, seldom efforts have been made to unveil clients’ positive changes signified by metaphoric variation in the context of recovery. Based on depression recovery stories posted on Chinese Wechat subscription accounts, this study unpicks evolved metaphoric patterns indicative of positive changes regarding altered attitudes toward depression, social interaction and healthcare services during depressed patients’ recovery. It is found that these varying patterns can be mostly decoded based on correspondence and class inclusion metaphor types, developing from specific original source-target relations or original elements of the sources, while the rest of them can be realized by the introduction of new sources or targets for elaborating new experience and outcomes. They reflect depression survivors’ positive thinking patterns, self-empowerment and resilience, and convey their experience-licensed suggestions and encouragement to peers. Additionally, this study discusses how the Chinese socio-cultural values play a vital role in the understanding of depression-related metaphors and their variation, and provides implications for the application of metaphoric techniques in healthcare practice with socio-cultural sensitivity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100046"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neuro-linguistic programming's impact on academic performance in primary schoolchildren at risk of ADHD","authors":"Furat Taha ,&nbsp;Razan Mhanna ,&nbsp;Zeina Harakeh ,&nbsp;Sanaa Awada ,&nbsp;Roula Bou Assi ,&nbsp;Assem El-Kak ,&nbsp;Georges Hatem","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.100044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.100044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the effects of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) on students at risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), recognizing the influential role of teachers in student development. Conducted over five months in a Lebanese private school, the cohort study involved 130 students (mean age: 8.7 years) spanning grades 1–5. Utilizing the NICHQ Vanderbilt Assessment Scale, teachers' pre- and post-intervention assessments, with sociodemographic data from caregivers, were collected. Significant improvements in inattentive and hyperactive symptoms post-NLP were noted, with ADHD percentages dropping to zero. Oppositional/conduct and anxiety/depression risks also decreased. Academic performance, particularly in written expression, showed notable improvement (18–9.1 %; p = 0.05). Teachers reported substantial advancements in high-risk ADHD children following NLP interventions, highlighting the importance of teacher-student relationships, motivation, confidence, and collaborative parent-teacher efforts in creating conducive learning environments. NLP can be used as an effective tool in addressing cognitive challenges and promoting positive behavioral changes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100044"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143092241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ABP Publisher's note","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2949-9038(24)00030-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2949-9038(24)00030-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"2 2","pages":"Article 100041"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142722374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"AN Publisher's note","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S2949-9038(24)00032-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S2949-9038(24)00032-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"2 2","pages":"Article 100043"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142719778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translating informed consent in Scottish maternity services: perspectives from providers and researchers of both maternity care and translation/interpreting services.","authors":"Jenny Patterson ,&nbsp;Şebnem Susam-Saraeva","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Failing to meet the communication and information needs of childbearing women leaves them unable to provide true informed consent. Lack of control or lack of involvement in decision making contribute to birth trauma. For those with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) receiving information requires use of interpreters often hindered within pressurised maternity services and urgent situations. Women with LEP are often of ethnicities at risk of poorer maternity outcomes and from cultures where maternity service practices differ from Scottish maternity services.</div></div><div><h3>Question</h3><div>How do maternity care professionals (MCPs) and translation &amp; interpreting (T&amp;I) providers experience their role around informed consent when caring for women with LEP in Scotland; what do they identify as barriers or facilitators?</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Data were collected using qualitative methodology through online focus groups and interactive workshops including a mix of MCPs and T&amp;I providers. Recruitment used a snowball approach via word of mouth and email. Focus groups were audio recorded and transcribed verbatim, workshops were audio-visually recorded and closely examined. Data were analysed using Framework analysis.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Four themes emerged from the study: 1) Limited resources; 2) Inter-professional concerns; 3) Cultural heritage; and 4) Power.</div></div><div><h3>Discussion</h3><div>Limited resources affect women, MCPs and interpreting services. A lack of cultural awareness and power differentials create pressure for everyone within the process.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>LEP increases complexity around informed consent. Challenges are multifaceted compounded by lack of time and resources alongside power differentials. Trust, respect and continuity are key facilitators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"2 2","pages":"Article 100023"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142722375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Profiles of public attitude change regarding stuttering","authors":"Kenneth O. St. Louis ,&nbsp;Fauzia Abdalla ,&nbsp;Salman Abdi ,&nbsp;Elizabeth (Fisher) Aliveto ,&nbsp;Ann Beste-Guldborg ,&nbsp;Agata Błachnio ,&nbsp;Benjamin Bolton-Grant ,&nbsp;Sarah Eisert ,&nbsp;Timothy Flynn ,&nbsp;Sheryl Gottwald ,&nbsp;Jessica Hartley ,&nbsp;Daniel Hudock ,&nbsp;Kia N. Johnson ,&nbsp;Lejla Junuzović-Žunić ,&nbsp;Aneta Przepiórka ,&nbsp;M. Pushpavathi ,&nbsp;Isabella Reichel ,&nbsp;Hossein Rezai ,&nbsp;Chelsea (Kuhn) Roche ,&nbsp;Sara Spears ,&nbsp;Katarzyna Węsierska","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><div>A growing number of studies have sought to reduce negative public attitudes toward stuttering in pre-test/post-test designs using the <em>Public Opinion Survey of Human Attributes–Stuttering</em> (<em>POSHA–S</em>). Most investigations have succeeded in improving attitudes, but about one-third of them have not. A previous companion study showed that intervention—but not demographic—characteristics of samples partly predicted success.</div></div><div><h3>Method</h3><div>Authors investigated individual profiles and predictors of change in nonstuttering individuals’ attitudes from pre-test to post-test after exposure to interventions or no intervention. Using pre- versus post-<em>POSHA–S</em> mean ratings from different samples (representing 7 countries and 6 languages) 29 samples comprising 934 respondents were categorized into four categories of intervention success from “unsuccessful” to “very successful.” These were compared to 12 pre and post non-intervention samples containing 345 respondents from a second companion study. Within categories, the individual respondents were sorted according to positive, minimal, or negative changes from pre- to post-tests on the <em>POSHA–S</em> Overall Stuttering Score (OSS). The non-intervention category served as a baseline for determining the effects of interventions on respondents who improved, worsened, or remained the same.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>As in the previous non-intervention category, within all intervention categories, an unexpected and heretofore undocumented “crossover” effect emerged. Respondents with the least positive pre attitudes improved greatly, and respondents with the most positive attitudes worsened greatly. Those with intermediate attitudes changed minimally. The percentage of respondents changing positively differentiated levels of success in the intervention categories, while the magnitude of mean change did not. Potential predictors in positive and negative changers were not apparent from <em>POSHA–S</em> demographic and attitude variables.</div></div><div><h3>Implications</h3><div>Future interventions to improve stuttering attitudes should address their relatively unstable nature and be targeted differentially to positive, minimal, and negative changers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"2 2","pages":"Article 100027"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A standardised practice of language and understanding: When deaf parents and their babies meet paediatric nurses in Norwegian health centres for routine postnatal consultations","authors":"Marita Løkken","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Deaf patients mostly experience unequal and inaccessible health services and bad health encounters with health professionals, both with and without interpreters present. This study provides insight into the perspectives on languages and modalities that emerge when (hearing) health professionals meet deaf parents with their babies in health centres, even with a sign language interpreter present. The study uncovers that deaf signing parents encounter a frame of “normate” that influences how their lived experiences and their signed language are perceived by the health professional. The empirical material comprises four video recordings from consultations, each involving a sign language interpreter, supported by recordings of interviews with deaf women after their routine postnatal consultations. Thematic analysis was applied to scrutinise the empirical material from actual consultations and interviews, this was followed by further analysis and discussion with perspectives from crip theory and crip linguistic lenses. The most significant finding is that spoken language has hegemony; in contrast, signed languages and deaf experiences are poorly supported, or not at all. The health professionals lack knowledge about how to meet, support and encourage deaf parents, their babies, and their preferred language. The lack of knowledge leads to sign language, and being deaf in the family not being understood, overlooked, neglected and poorly supported. Implications for practice may be that health education programmes need to implement an expanded understanding of language.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"2 2","pages":"Article 100026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}