Static versus interactive online resources about dementia: A comparison of readability scores.
Static and social online health resources are widely and easily accessed, but not necessarily easily understood. Recent guidelines suggest that health-related text should be written at a grade level between 5 and 6. This guideline is particularly critical when considering persons with dementia; as t...
| Publicado en: | Gerontechnology Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 29 - 38 |
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| Formato: | equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article |
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International Society for Gerontechnology
2018
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=144595831&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 144595831 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15691101 904R jtl: Gerontechnology issn: 15691101 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2018 vid: 17 iid: 1 pid: 54298 pub: International Society for Gerontechnology artinfo: ui: 144595831 144595831 144595831 10.4017/gt.2018.17.1.003.00 144595831 ppf: 29 ppct: 9 formats: tig: atl: Static versus interactive online resources about dementia: A comparison of readability scores. aug: au: Robillard, Julie M. Sporn, Arlo B. affil: Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada sug: subj: Information Resources World Wide Web Readability Dementia Patients Health Information Human Practice Guidelines Access to Information Information Seeking Behavior Descriptive Statistics Reading Social Media ab: Static and social online health resources are widely and easily accessed, but not necessarily easily understood. Recent guidelines suggest that health-related text should be written at a grade level between 5 and 6. This guideline is particularly critical when considering persons with dementia; as the symptoms of dementia progress, patients experience losses in their reading comprehension abilities. The aim of this study was to evaluate the readability of online information about dementia returned through keyword searches on search engines (N=200 webpages), as well as contained within discussion forums about dementia (n=1068 discussion threads). Grade scores were analyzed and compared using the following formulas: Flesch-Kinkaid, SMOG and Gunning FOG. For webpages, the mean grade level of text as calculated by the Flesch-Kincaid, SMOG, and Gunning FOG readability formulas were 11.8, 13.9, and 13.2 respectively; for discussion threads, the mean scores were 7.66, 9.88, and 9.75, respectively. Information about treatment was the most difficult to read. Results show that information on discussion forums is significantly easier to read than is information found on static websites, and that overall, online information about dementia is written at a reading level that is too challenging for the general public. These findings have important implications for health information-seeking, and lowering readability should be a priority for providers of both static and interactive online information about dementia. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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