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Recruitment in Health Research Linguistic differences could also result in barriers to effective participant recruitment in health research, SP sp [14] SP sp an issue often underreported in the health research literature. SP sp [15] SP sp This could negatively impact the ability to generalize research findings to populations who speak minor languages, populations often affected by health inequities. Researchers who speak languages other than English and that have a greater impact, such as Spanish, French, or German, are still overrepresented in high-income countries. SP sp [9] SP sp The result is an omission of most researchers, mainly from LMICs where these languages are often not an additional language or the researchers are not fluent in English. As of 2021, there are 7,139 spoken languages recorded, with more than half having no written form. SP sp [1] SP sp Of these, only 23 are spoken by more than half of the world's population and claim disproportionate dominance. SP sp [1] SP sp Furthermore, health research, including mental health research, is disproportionately dominated by English, followed by other dominant languages such as Spanish and Russian. SP sp [2] SP sp The issue, however, is broader than the establishment of English as the lingua franca of academia. Still, it could be helpful for governments to develop language translation services for health research and the dissemination of health-related and other information. [Extracted from the article]