Level of reading difficulty in The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologsts Patient Education pamphlets

摘要: Written educational and informational materials are an important potentially useful means to complement verbal instructions, assure that consent for tests procedures is informed, enhance compliance with treatment. In specialties other than obstetrics gynecology, many of these have been found be written at a level difficulty above the reading ability intended audience. The SMOG formula was used assess all 74 English-language patient education pamphlets developed by American College Obstetricians Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Patient Education. Sixty-one 11th grade or higher. Although mean in United States 12.6, literacy below eighth grade. With exception one ACOG pamphlet specifically low-readability audiences (p-063, Birth Control Pills), higher women. information unlikely understood if it This disparity accentuated health-education because scientific technical terms further reduce comprehension. simple ensure appropriate