Readability and content analysis of print cholesterol education materials

Osteoporosis-preventive behaviors and their promotion for young men

“…Handouts are advantageous for widespread dissemination in public health practice and mass media campaigns, 28 but they must only include adequate and essential information to avoid being too extensive and overwhelming. 29 For osteoporosis-preventive behaviors, 'weight-bearing physical activity' was replaced with the term 'exercise' and 'calcium consumption' was shortened to 'calcium' to make those terms simpler for the participants and to correspond to those same terms used in the OHBS, OSES and ECBS. Constructs for each osteoporosis health belief on the basis of HBM were incorporated into the treatment intervention, including perceived susceptibility to osteoporosis, perceived severity of osteoporosis, perceived benefits of exercise and calcium to prevent osteoporosis, perceived barriers to exercise and calcium and self-efficacy for exercise and calcium.…”

Healthcare organizations, linguistic communities, and the emblematic model of palliative care

“…The metaphor used by Freire 22 in this context is that the power needed to change behavior is "stored" in the organization as a bank. Several authors have investigated the efficacy of readability scores to evaluate information leaflets 29,30,31,32 . The cognitivist focus permeates the readability hypothesis as the key to their communicative efficacy.…”

Using the printed medium to disseminate information about psychiatric disorders: original article

“…6,20 -A font size of 12 is recommended for most readers, but can be reduced or increased based on the needs of the audience. 21,13 A high percentage of low literate readers might necessitate an increase in the size of the font. 22 In targeting the South African public a font size 13 is the smallest size that can be considered.…”

“…6,11 • Typography contributes largely to the attractive appearance of printed texts:-• • White space, defined as "a space of two or more lines between blocks of text" is used as a tool for separating text, graphics and pictures. 21,9 The effective use of white space allows headers to emerge from the text and facilitates reading.…”