Nilay Bozta?|Dilek Ömür|?ule Özb?lg?n|Gözde Altuntas|Ersan Piskin|Sevda Özkarde?ler|Volkan Hanc?
Readability of internet-sourced patient education material related to “labour analgesia”
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hastanesi|Türk Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Derne?i|Dokuz Eylül University|Dokuz Eylül University|Türk Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Derne?i|Dokuz Eylül University|Türk Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Derne?i|Dokuz Eylül University|Türk Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Derne?i|Dokuz Eylül University|Türk Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Derne?i|Dokuz Eylül University|Türk Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Derne?i
evaluated readability internetsourced patient education materials pems related labour analgesia addition assessing readability websites aimed compare commercial personal academic websiteswe used popular search engine httpwwwgooglecom study first 100 websites english resulted search key words labour analgesia scanned websites english graphs pictures videos tables figures list formats text punctuation number words text less 100 words feedback forms related education uniform resource locator url websites author information references legal disclaimers addresses telephone numbers excludedthe texts included study assessed using flesch reading ease score fres fleschkincaid grade level fkgl simple measure gobbledygook smog gunning frequency gobbledygook fog readability formulae number latin words within text determinedanalysis 300word sections texts revealed mean fres 4754 1254 quite difficult mean fkgl smog 1192 259 1057 188 years education respectively mean gunning fog 1471 276 difficult within 300word sections mean number latin words identified 1656 637in study readability level internetsourced pem related labour analgesia identified quite high indicating poor readability