Abstract:
:The aims of this study were to document the readability of a stroke education brochure and to illustrate how the readability of this document might be improved. Readability analyses using three different formulas were conducted on a stroke education brochure from the Australian National Stroke Foundation. Consistent with previous studies of the readability of written health information, results indicated that the overall level of difficulty of the material was too complex for the average member of the public to read and understand. Revision of a randomly selected section of text using established guidelines for writing patient information, and subsequent reanalysis of this section, showed that simple revisions of health literature can dramatically improve readability. Given the importance of effective communication of preventative information about stroke, we present these results as a model of how future revisions of difficult to read stroke-related literature might be conducted to improve public education.
journal_name
Top Stroke Rehabiljournal_title
Topics in stroke rehabilitationauthors
Sullivan K,O'Conor Fdoi
10.1310/6UM4-6J7J-YTLC-K976keywords:
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Has Abstractpub_date
2001-01-01 00:00:00pages
52-60issue
4eissn
1074-9357issn
1945-5119journal_volume
7pub_type
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2020-12-02 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
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pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
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更新日期:2018-03-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00