Language of written medical educational materials for non-English speaking populations: an evaluation of a simplified bi-lingual approach

Table 2 Distribution of right answers in regard with medical education language preference.¹ Online Test, 2018

	Number (%) of Responses from Syrian Universities² (total: 1193)			Number (%) of Responses From All Universities² (total: 1440)
Medical education language preference	Mother language³: 737 (62)	Other language: 456 (38)	P-value	Mother language³: 864 (58)	Other language: 620 (42)	P-value
Right answers for the first Paragraph	73 (10)	40 (9)	0.51	88 (10)	72 (11.6)	0.47
Right answers for the second Paragraph	576 (78)	359 (79)	0.82	652 (75.4)	477 (77)	0.87
Right answers for the third Paragraph	161 (22)	129 (28)	0.012	182 (21)	154 (25)	0.14
Right answers for all English questions from all paragraphs⁴	217 (29.4)	195 (43)	< 0.001	247 (28.5)	258 (41.6)	< 0.001
Right answers for all mother language questions from all paragraphs⁴	45 (6)	25 (5.4)	0.98	56 (6.4)	38 (6)	0.98
Right answers for all questions	18 (2.4)	11 (2.4)	0.005	24 (2.7)	19 (3)	0.004

¹Responders were invited to answer if they preferred their mother language for the instruction of medical education or not
²Responses from preparatory year not included
³Arabic language represents mother language for this population
⁴One question for each of the three paragraphs was in English while the other was in mother language

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