Table 2.
Language background of patients observed during the baseline and live trials.
| Participants’ language background | Total participants per stage, n (%) | |||
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Baseline (n=82) | Trial with app used (n=30) | Trial without app (n=22) | Trial total(n=52) |
| Bosnian | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Cantonese | 0 (0) | 3 (10) | 1 (5) | 4 (8) |
| Croatian | 2 (2) | 6 (20) | 2 (9) | 8 (15) |
| English | 42 (51) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Greek | 4 (5) | 2a (7) | 7 (32) | 9 (17) |
| Italian | 7 (9) | 4 (13) | 3 (14) | 7 (13) |
| Macedonian | 6 (7) | 2 (7) | 1 (5) | 3 (6) |
| Mandarin | 0 (0) | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 1 (2) |
| Polish | 2 (2) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Punjabi | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (9) | 2 (4) |
| Samoan | 1 (1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Serbian | 1b (1) | 2 (7) | 1 (5) | 3 (6) |
| Spanish | 2 (2) | 1 (3) | 0 (0) | 1 (2) |
| Vietnamese | 14b (17) | 9b (30) | 5b (23) | 14 (27) |
aOne participant removed from data analysis due to resistance to care and communication.
bOne participant removed from data analysis because they were treated by nurses fluent in the patient’s first language.