Evaluation of the Readability of the Internet-Based Patient Education Materials Related to Sepsis

HANCI V., Sari N. Z., Sinlik E., BOZTAŞ N., Cirkinoglu G. G., ÖNER Ö.

GAZI MEDICAL JOURNAL, cilt.33, sa.4, ss.360-364, 2022 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 33 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.12996/gmj.2022.81
  • Dergi Adı: GAZI MEDICAL JOURNAL
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.360-364
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Sepsis, Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES), Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG), Gunning Fog, readability formulas
  • Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Introduction: Readability gives information about the characteristics of syllables, words and sentences of that language and whether the text is easily understood by the reader at a certain level by presenting some quantitative data about the texts. The aim of our study is to evaluate the readability of English-language patient education materials related to "Sepsis".