INTRODUCTION The aims of this study were to cross-culturally adapt and evaluate the validity of the Singaporean Malay and Tamil versions of the EQ-5D. MATERIALS AND METHODS The EQ- 5D was cross-culturally adapted and translated using an iterative process following standard guidelines. Consenting adult Malay- and Tamil-speaking subjects at a primary care facility in Singapore were interviewed ...

Introduction The year 1874, when the British first established indirect rule on the Malay Peninsula, has conventionally marked the start of “modern” Malay history. 1 For those engaged in the writing of this “modern” history, the preceding period from 1826-1874 has often been treated as an era of stagnation or decline. With the exception of a few studies, notably that of Khoo Kay Kim, analysis o...

background and purpose: medical education is a laborious program which may give negative consequences on the physical and psychological health of medical students. the aims of this study were to evaluate psychological distress among malay medical students and to assess its relationship with their lifestyle. methods: a cross-sectional study was conducted among 221 malay medical students. psychol...

The Drive for Muscularity Scale (DMS) is a widely used measure in studies of men's body image, but few studies have examined its psychometric properties outside English-speaking samples. Here, we assessed the factor structure of a Malay translation of the DMS. A community sample of 159 Malay men from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, completed the DMS, along with measures of self-esteem, body appreciatio...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess the measurement equivalence of the 5-level EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L) among the English, Chinese, and Malay versions. METHODS A convenience sample of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus were enrolled from a public primary health care institution in Singapore. The survey questionnaire comprised the EQ-5D-5L and questions assessing participants' socio-demographic ...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the cross-cultural adaptation of the Psychosocial Impact of Dental Aesthetics Questionnaire (PIDAQ) into Malay version (Malay PIDAQ), an oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) instrument specific for orthodontics for Malaysian adolescents between 12 and 17 years old. METHODS The PIDAQ was cross-culturally adapted into Malay version by forward- and backwar...

BACKGROUND Treatment objectives for dyspepsia include improvements in both symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). There is a lack of disease-specific instruments measuring HRQoL in South East Asian dyspeptics. OBJECTIVES To validate English and locally translated version of the Short-Form Nepean Dyspepsia Index (SF-NDI) in Malaysian patients who consult for dyspepsia. METHODS ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the psychometric properties of the faces version of the Modified Child Dental Anxiety Scale (MCDASf) Malay version in 5-6 and 9-12 year-old children. METHODS The MCDASf was cross culturally adapted from English into Malay. The Malay version was tested for reliability and validity in 3 studies. In the Study 1, to determine test-retest reliability of MCDASf scale, 166 pre...

A Malay speech synthesizer system will be discussed. This paper will cover the available Malay speech synthesis system, the underlying structure of our system, brief description of crucial modules, general evaluation of the system, the proposed enhancement and future work of Malay text-to-speech system in Computer-Aided Translation Unit (UTMK). The objective is to highlight how our system works...

introduction: fasting during ramadan provides an opportunistic setting for smoking cessation intervention. smokers find it easy to cease smoking during ramadan due to the religion, cultural and environmental influences. this study aims to determine the changes in smoking behaviour during ramadan among malay muslim male students who were current smokers. methods: this is cross sectional study us...