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Linguistic markers of story recall can help differentiate mild cognitive impairment from normal aging 故事回忆的语言标记有助于区分轻度认知障碍和正常衰老

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.09.002

Angela K. Boland , Adelaide Jensen , Patrick S.R. Davidson , Vanessa Taler

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A linguistic analysis of female and male opening posts on an online forum dedicated to pain 对专门讨论疼痛问题的在线论坛上女性和男性开篇帖子的语言分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.07.001

Luke C. Collins, Elena Semino

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Narratives of Anxiety and Depression on YouTube: A Corpus-Based Thematic Analysis YouTube 上的焦虑和抑郁叙事：基于语料库的主题分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.09.001

Xinxin Huang , Yee Chin Gan , Ayeshah Syed

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Work community support in professional language learning among culturally and linguistically diverse nurses: Implementation of action research in a hospital setting 在不同文化和语言背景的护士中开展专业语言学习的工作社区支持：在医院环境中实施行动研究

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.003

Johanna Komppa , Katriina Eronen , Eveliina Korpela

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What drives task performance in fluency tasks in people who had COVID-19? 是什么促使 COVID-19 患者在流畅性任务中表现出色？

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.001

Adrià Rofes , Marta Almeria , Barbara Sampedro , Roel Jonkers , Joan Deus , Jerzy Krupinski

{"title":"What drives task performance in fluency tasks in people who had COVID-19?","authors":"Adrià Rofes , Marta Almeria , Barbara Sampedro , Roel Jonkers , Joan Deus , Jerzy Krupinski","doi":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Some people who had COVID-19 have been shown to perform below a normative sample on fluency tasks. Unveiling the factors driving performance in this population can explain their underlying impairments. In this article we assess (1) whether people who had COVID-19 are impaired in animal or letter fluency relative to a normative sample; and (2) whether performance (total correct word count) can be explained by demographic factors, common COVID-19 symptoms, number of switches, mean cluster size, and word properties of fluency tasks.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>Eighty-four Spanish-speaking people who had COVID-19 responded to an animal and a letter fluency task, 10–35 days after hospital discharge or self-quarantining. We obtained demographic, common symptom/factors, and calculated number of switches, mean cluster size and eight word properties for each correct word. A comparison of correct words with a normative sample was used to address Aim 1, and Random forests/Conditional inference trees for Aim 2. The last method is not affected by multicollinearity.</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>People who had COVID-19 were not impaired in fluency tasks compared to normative data collected before the pandemic. Number of switches predicted total number of correct words in both fluency tasks. In addition, frequency, age of acquisition, and familiarity predicted animal fluency scores; and concreteness predicted letter fluency scores. No other measure showed as important.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><div>Number of switches and word properties predicted the performance in fluency tasks of people who had COVID-19. Concreteness was not expected to predict letter fluency and may indicate a specific linguistic pattern in people who had COVID-19.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":100865,"journal":{"name":"Language and Health","volume":"2 2","pages":"Article 100031"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655682","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}

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What do(n’t) hospital patients like about using professional interpreting services? 医院病人喜欢（不喜欢）使用专业口译服务吗？

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.10.002

Jim Hlavac , Emiliano Zucchi , Yue Hu

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A corpus-assisted discourse analysis of socio-cultural values in Chinese and English social stories for autistic individuals 针对自闭症患者的中英文社会故事中的社会文化价值观的语料库辅助话语分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.08.002

Jesse W.C. Yip

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Moments of silence at the beginning stage of psychotherapy with young adult clients: A conversation analysis 年轻成人心理治疗开始阶段的沉默时刻：对话分析

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-11-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2024.07.002

Shuangquan Tan , Bingqing Nie , Zhaoqi Xu

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Narrative modulations in patient-practitioner communication: Exploring attunement and misattunement in supported self-management 患者与医生交流中的叙事调节：探索辅助自我管理中的调和与误调

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.11.002

Mimi Huang

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Cognitive-linguistic difficulties in adults with Long COVID: A follow-up study 长COVID成人的认知语言障碍：一项后续研究

Language and Health Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.laheal.2023.09.001

Louise Cummings

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