Determination of Reading Comprehension Level For Effective Patient Health-Education Materials

Miller, Beverly A King; Bodie, Marilynn

doi:10.1097/00006199-199403000-00013

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“…Davis et al [ 18 ] reported that among adult patients with a fifth to tenth grade education, 60% were reading at least three grades below their grade level. Similar results have been reported in other studies which report up to six grade reading levels below the highest grade completed [ 19 ].…”

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confidence: 91%

Readability estimates for commonly used health-related quality of life surveys

Paz¹,

Liu

Fongwa³

et al. 2009

Qual Life Res

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Purpose To estimate readability of seven commonly used health-related quality of life instruments: SF-36, HUI, EQ-5D, QWB-SA, HALex, Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ), and the NEI-VFQ-25. Methods The Flesch-Kincaid (F-K) and Flesch Reading Ease (FRE) formulae were used to estimate readability for every item in each measure. Results The percentage of items that require more than 5 years of formal schooling according to F-K was 50 for the EQ-5D, 53 for the SF-36, 80 for the VFQ-25, 85 for the QWB-SA, 100 for the HUI, HALex, and the MLHFQ. The percentage of items deemed harder than ''easy'' according to FRE was 50 for the SF-36, 67 for the EQ-5D, 79 for the QWB-SA, 80 for the VFQ-25, 100 for the HUI, HALex, and the MLHFQ. Conclusions All seven surveys have a substantial number of items with high readability levels that may not be appropriate for the general population.

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Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 91%

Readability estimates for commonly used health-related quality of life surveys

Paz¹,

Liu

Fongwa³

et al. 2009

Qual Life Res

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“…Their report was published in 1999 after an extensive review of the literature related to health literacy and consultation among the committee members (American Medical Association Ad Hoc Committee on Health Literacy for the Council on Scientific Affairs 1999). To date, few references to health literacy research appear in the nursing literature, although several studies explore the relationship between reading ability and health education outcomes (Miller & Bodie 1994, Brez & Taylor 1997, Fisher 1999, French & Larrabee 1999).…”

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Health literacy: concept analysis

Speros

2005

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…The final survey had a Flesch-Kincaid reading score of 7.4, in either language, which met the acceptable criteria of 6-8th grade reading level for our target population. 53,54 Assessment of intent Intent to immunize was assessed by asking "On a scale of 0 (definitely not) to 10 (definitely so), please rank your likelihood of getting a flu shot during your pregnancy." Subsequently, we dichotomized variable that allowed us to evaluate those "likely" (responded 6 through 10) and "not likely" (responded 0 through 5) to obtain influenza immunization during pregnancy.…”

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confidence: 99%