The acoustic characteristics of sustained vowel have been widely investigated across various languages and ethnic groups. These acoustic measures, including fundamental frequency (F(0)), jitter (Jitt), relative average perturbation (RAP), five-point period perturbation quotient (PPQ5), shimmer (Shim), and 11-point amplitude perturbation quotient (APQ11) are not well established for Malaysian Ma...

The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is one of the most widely used scales for the measurement of subjective well-being across the globe, but no satisfactory version exists for use among Malay-speaking populations. The present study reports on the translation of a new Malay SWLS and examines its psychometric properties in a community sample of 816 Malay and 738 Chinese participants from Mala...

BACKGROUND The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) is used to assess oral impacts on the quality of life of preschool aged children and their families. The objective of this study was to perform a cross-cultural adaptation of the ECOHIS into Malay and assess its psychometric properties. METHODS The cross-cultural adaptation of ECOHIS into Malay comprised of translating the ECOHI...

From 1909-1941, the Malay Peninsula consisted of the four Federated Malay States (FMS) of Selangor, Perak, Pahang and Negri Sembilan. Kedah, Pedis, Kelantan, Terengganu and Johore comprised the Unfederated Malay States. In the Unfederated States, the British share in the administration was less than in the FMS, where there was a largely British administration with certain Malay perogatives. Sin...

The aim of this study was to identify predictors of response to treatment for depression in Malaysia, using demographic and cognitive predictors. 113 patients, that were diagnosed with depression, were randomly assigned to the Treatment-As-Usual (TAU) (n=55), or TAU plus eight sessions of Group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (TAU+GCBT; n=58). Pre-treatment using the Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), ...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to adapt, translate and validate the Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire (CLDQ) in Malaysian patients with chronic liver diseases of various aetiologies. SETTING Tertiary level teaching institution in Malaysia. PARTICIPANTS The validation process involved 211 adult patients (English language n=101, Malay language n=110) with chronic liver disease. Characteristics of the s...

Abstrak The Malay language is an Austronesian language spoken in most countries in the South East Asia region that includes Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and Thailand. Traditional linguistics is well developed for Malay but there are very limited resources and tools that are available or made accessible for computer linguistic analysis of Malay language. Assigning part of speech (POS) ...

The relationship between nutrition, health and educational achievement of school-age population in less developed countries has been of interest to many researchers due to the frequent observation that many children did not complete primary school and those who completed, did not do as well as children in the developed countries. Nevertheless, nutritional and health status by itself is not the ...

the study was conducted to determine the prevalence of goiter and hypothyroidism in two groups of the population at various stages of social development and to determine its association with malnutrition and dietary intake. aboriginal inhabitants (orang asli), a resettlement rural village (betau post), a traditional village in the jungle (lanai post) and a modern village settlement near kuala l...

BACKGROUND Catquest questionnaire was originally developed in Swedish to measure patients' self-assessed visual function to evaluate the benefit of cataract surgery. The result of the Rasch analysis leading to the creation of the nine-item short form of Catquest, (Catquest-9SF), and it had been translated and validated in English. The aim is therefore to evaluate the translated Catquest-9SF que...