CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION NCT00486863.

Filipino Americans have lower suicide rates than other Asian ethnic groups. The present study examined risk factors for suicide ideation and attempt among Filipino Americans with random forest. The data were from the Filipino American Community Epidemiological Study (Takeuchi, 2011). The results showed that the important predictors for suicide ideation were depressive disorder, substance use di...

Heritage language learners are learners of the primary language of their parents which they might have been exposed to but have not learned it as a language they can fluently use to communicate with other people. Salinlahi, an Interactive Learning Environment, was developed to teach these young Filipino heritage learners about basic Filipino vocabulary while Salinlahi II included a support for ...

Acculturation, the subsequent changes that occur in one culture after continuous first hand contact with another culture, impacts the dietary habits and health risks of individuals. This study examines the acculturation, dietary habits and anthropometric measurements in a sample of 210 first generation Filipino American immigrants in New Jersey (NJ). Acculturation was measured using the Short A...

BACKGROUND Advance directives are important but often underused tools in critical care. Healthcare professionals' understanding of how culture influences attitudes toward advance directives can improve knowledge and completion of these documents. OBJECTIVE To understand the attitudes of critically ill Filipino American patients and their families toward advance directives. METHODS A descrip...

The replacement patterns of Ascaris lumbricoides worm populations were investigated by complete deworming of 150 Filipino children (0-14 years old) from both urban and rural barangays and analyzing the age distribution of the 2,072 adult worms (939 males and 1,133 females) obtained, based on Seo's (1983) regression equation relating length to age. It was observed that most worm populations foll...

This study focuses on using hybrid n-grams as grammar rules for detecting grammatical errors and providing corrections in Filipino. These grammar rules are derived from grammatically-correct and tagged texts which are made up of part-of-speech (POS) tags, lemmas, and surface words sequences. Due to the structure of the rules used by this system, it presents an opportunity to have an unsupervise...

BACKGROUND Migration has an influence on health behavior and food intake. Dietary variety is a key component to high-quality diets because a single food item does not contain a variety of nutrients and may not reflect nutritional adequacy. We aimed to compare the dietary diversity scores (DDS), food variety scores (FVS), and nutrient adequacy levels of married Filipino immigrant women in Korea ...