Chih-Hung Tseng, Chin-Hsien Hsu, Jing-Wei Liu, Ching-Tang Wang
The impact of online teaching in behavior intention for college students in Taiwan
Frontiers in psychology
orthopaedic patient education materials pems repeatedly shown well recommended reading level national institute health american medical association purpose study create standardized method improve readability pems describing spinerelated conditions injuries hypothesized reducing usage complex words 3 syllables reducing sentence length 15 words per sentence improves readability pems measured seven readability formulas used orthoinfoorg queried spinerelated pems objective readability pems evaluated using seven unique readability formulas applying standardized method improve readability preserving critical content method involved reducing use 3 syllable words ensuring sentence length 15 words paired samples ttests conducted assess relationships cutoff statistical significance set p 005 total 20 spinerelated pem articles used study comparing original pems edited pems significant differences seen among seven readability scores six numerical descriptive statistics used per flesch kincaid grade level readability formula one original pem 5 versus 15 edited pems 75 met recommendations sixthgrade reading level current study shows using standardized method significantly improves readability spinerelated pems significantly increased likelihood pems meet recommendations sixthgrade reading level