Jasmyne A Sanderson, Vanessa Bowden, Briony Swire-Thompson, Stephan Lewandowsky, Ullrich K H Ecker
Listening to Misinformation while Driving: Cognitive Load and the Effectiveness of (Repeated) Corrections
Journal of applied research in memory and cognition
parents often access online resources educate child diagnosed clubfoot prior treatment initiation order fully understood average adult american online health information must written elementary school reading level hypothesized current available online resources regarding clubfoot would score poorly objective measures readability syntax reading gradelevel understandability ability process key messages actionability providing actions reader may take additionally hypothesized outcomes measured would correlate order listed search results patient education materials identified utilizing two independent online searches googlecom term clubfoot top 50 search results websites included directed educating patients families regarding clubfoot news articles nontext material video research journal articles industry websites articles related clubfoot excluded readability included resources quantified using flesch reading ease score fres fleschkincaid grade level fkgl simple measure gobbledygook smog grade colemanliau index cli gunningfog index gfi automated reading index ari patient education materials assessment tool pemat used assess actionability understandability using 0100 scale measures interest 55 unique websites 37 websites 652 met inclusion criteria mean fkgl 92 21 three websites 732 reading level 6 mean understandability actionability scores 672126 254252 respectively thirteen 35 websites met understandability threshold 70 websites met actionability criteria readability statistics statistically associated google search rank p007 association readability p094 actionability p018 scores google rank however understandability scores correlate google rank p002 overall online clubfoot educational materials scored poorly respect readability understandability actionability association google search rank understandability clubfoot materials however readability actionability significantly associated search rank era shared decisionmaking efforts made medical professionals improve readability understandability actionability online resources order optimize parent understanding facilitate effective outcomeslevel evidence