Readability and quality assessment of internet‐based patient education materials related to laryngeal cancer

• DOI: 10.1002/hed.23939
• Publication Date: 2014-12-09T18:31:13Z
• Authors: Vishal Narwani; Keerthana Nalamada; Michael Lee; Prasad Kothari; Raj Lakhani
• Keywords: Grade level; Patient Education

Patients are increasingly using the internet to access health-related information. The purpose of this study was assess readability and quality laryngeal cancer-related websites.Patient education materials were identified by performing an search 3 engines. Readability assessed Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES), Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), Gunning Fog Index (GFI). DISCERN instrument utilized health information.A total 54 websites included in analysis. mean scores as follows: FRES, 48.2 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 44.8-51.6); FKGL, 10.9 CI 10.3-11.5); GFI, 13.8 11.3-16.3). These suggest that, on average, online information about patients with cancer is written at advanced level. score 49.8 45.4-54.2), suggesting that variable quality.Our suggests much available suboptimal a level too difficult for average adult read comfortably.