Readability of ASPS and ASAPS Educational Web Sites: An Analysis of Consumer Impact

• DOI: 10.1097/prs.0b013e3181d0ab9e
• Publication Date: 2010-03-23T06:43:42Z
• Authors: Oluseyi Aliu; Kevin C. Chung
• Keywords: Patient Education; Health Literacy

Background: Patients use the Internet to educate themselves about health-related topics, and learning plastic surgery is a common activity for enthusiastic consumers in United States. How regarding surgical procedures continued concern surgeons when faced with growing portion of American population having relatively low health care literacy. The usefulness education materials on depends largely their comprehensibility understandability all who visit Web sites. Methods: authors studied readability patient related from Society Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Aesthetic Surgery (ASAPS) sites compared them similar topics 10 popular information–providing Results: found that analyzed documents ASPS ASAPS targeted were rated be more difficult than recommended reading grade level most adults, these consistently among read other information Conclusions: an increasingly avenue patients procedures. Patient material provided should written at levels ensure it readable comprehensible audience.