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. 2012 Nov 14;5:635. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-635

Table 2.

Evaluation of translation of English into Japanese, and Korean into Japanese

  English into Japanese Korean into Japanese t P
Intelligibility Mean (SD)
n* = 169
n* = 174
8.046
<0.001
2.46 (0.99)
3.38 (1.14)
Usability Mean (SD) n** = 27
n** = 27
3.189 0.002
2.59 (1.19) 3.59 (1.12)

n* the total number of unit sections for translation evaluation, according to structured abstracts, e.g., “Title” “Aim” “Background” “Method” “Results” “Discussion” and

“Conclusions”.

n** the total number of whole abstracts evaluated for usability of the translation.