BACKGROUND This study examined the content and general readability of pediatric oral health education materials for parents of young children. METHODS Twenty-seven pediatric oral health pamphlets or brochures from commercial, government, industry, and private nonprofit sources were analyzed for general readability ("usability") according to several parameters: readability, (Flesch-Kincaid gra...

This paper addresses the problem of automatic evaluation of text simplification systems for Spanish. We test whether already-existing readability formulae would be suitable for this task. We adapt three existing readability indices (two measuring lexical complexity and one measuring syntactic complexity) to be computed automatically, which are then applied to a corpus of original news texts and...

Latest research has shown that the readability of documents plays an important role in information seeking and acquisition, especially for non-domain-expert users. Classical document readability measures are based on surface text features, independent of users. In this paper, we propose to integrate text features with the users’ eye movement features. The latter is expected to reflect a user’s ...

This document presents a readability test designed to optimise the readability of package leaflets for medicinal products. Patients often find leaflets incomprehensible, which in part explains the high percentage of medications disposed of before being taken. So patient information must be formulated that an averagely educated user can understand its content and follow its instructions. The pap...

Readability formulas are methods used to match texts with the readers’ reading level. Several methodological paradigms have previously been investigated in the field. The most popular paradigm dates several decades back and gave rise to well known readability formulas such as the Flesch formula (among several others). This paper compares this approach (henceforth ”classic”) with an emerging par...

Sarday, O cber 7, 2017 cities of Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami and New York attained mean readability grade levels of 12.2, standard error of the mean (SEM)±0.28; 12.2, SEM±0.24; 11.6 SEM±0.28; 12.3 SEM±0.24; and 12.9 SEM±0.33 respectively, with significant difference in mean demonstrated between articles of New York and Los Angeles (p=0.018). There was no significant difference in readab...

Readability is defined as the “comprehensibility of written text” [2,3]. It has been measured by various formulae developed for materials written for native speakers of a language (L1), or materials designed for second and/or foreign language students (L2). According to Brown et al. [4], being used with L1 texts, readability formulae provide a numerical index that estimates the reading difficul...

BACKGROUND Patient education materials should be written at a level that is understandable for patients with low health literacy. The aims of this study are (1) to review the literature on readability of ophthalmic patient education materials and (2) to evaluate and revise our institution's patient education materials about glaucoma using evidence-based guidelines on writing for patients with l...

BACKGROUND In the era of new information and communication technologies, the Internet is being increasingly accessed for health-related information. Indeed, recently published patient surveys of people with autoimmune disorders confirmed that the Internet was reported as one of the most important health information sources. Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia launched in 2001, is generally on...

Latest research has shown that the readability of documents plays an important role in information seeking and acquisition, especially for non-domain-expert users. Classical document readability measures are based on surface text features, independent of users. In this paper, we propose to integrate text features with the users’ eye movement features. The latter is expected to reflect a user’s ...