How readable are Australian paediatric oral health education materials?
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Auteurs : Amit Arora [Australie] ; Andy Sf Lam [Australie] ; Zahra Karami [Australie] ; Loc Giang Do [Australie] ; Mark Fort Harris [Australie]Source :
- BMC Oral Health [ 1472-6831 ] ; 2014.
Abstract
The objective of this study was to analyse the readability of paediatric oral health education leaflets available in Australia.
Forty paediatric oral health education materials were analysed for general readability according to the following parameters: Thoroughness; Textual framework; Terminology; and Readability (Flesch-Kincaid grade level (FKGL), Gunning Fog index (Fog) and Simplified Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG)).
Leaflets produced by the industry were among the hardest to read with an average readability at the 8th grade (8.4 ± 0.1). The readability of leaflets produced by the commercial sector was at the 7th grade (7.1 ± 1.7) and the government at the 6th grade (6.3 ± 1.9). The FKGL consistently yielded readabilities 2 grades below the Fog and SMOG indexes. In the content analyses, 14 essential paediatric oral health topics were noted and Early Childhood Caries (ECC) was identified as the most commonly used jargon term.
Paediatric oral health education materials are readily available, yet their quality and readability vary widely and may be difficult to read for disadvantaged populations in Australia. A redesign of these leaflets while taking literacy into consideration is suggested.
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DOI: 10.1186/1472-6831-14-111
PubMed: 25183234
PubMed Central: 4236645
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industry were among the hardest to read with an average readability at the 8th grade (8.4 ± 0.1). The readability of leaflets produced by the commercial sector was at the 7th grade (7.1 ± 1.7) and the government at the 6th grade (6.3 ± 1.9). The FKGL consistently yielded readabilities 2 grades below the Fog and SMOG indexes. In the content analyses, 14 essential paediatric oral health topics were noted and Early Childhood Caries (ECC) was identified as the most commonly used jargon term.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Paediatric oral health education materials are readily available, yet their quality and readability vary widely and may be difficult to read for disadvantaged populations in Australia. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">BMC Oral Health</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">BMC Oral Health</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>BMC Oral Health</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">1472-6831</issn><publisher><publisher-name>BioMed Central</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">25183234</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">4236645</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1472-6831-14-111</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1186/1472-6831-14-111</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>How readable are Australian paediatric oral health education materials?</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes" id="A1"><name><surname>Arora</surname><given-names>Amit</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="I1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="I2">2</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="I3">3</xref><email>amit.arora@unsw.edu.au</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="A2"><name><surname>Lam</surname><given-names>Andy SF</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="I2">2</xref><email>andylm@msn.com</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="A3"><name><surname>Karami</surname><given-names>Zahra</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="I2">2</xref><email>zahra.karami@sydney.edu.au</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="A4"><name><surname>Do</surname><given-names>Loc Giang</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="I4">4</xref><email>loc.do@adelaide.edu.au</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author" id="A5"><name><surname>Harris</surname><given-names>Mark Fort</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="I1">1</xref><email>m.f.harris@unsw.edu.au</email></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="I1"><label>1</label>Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Australia, Room 345, Level 3, AGSM Building, Gate 11, Botany Street, Randwick NSW 2052, Australia</aff><aff id="I2"><label>2</label>Faculty of Dentistry, University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW, Australia</aff><aff id="I3"><label>3</label>Sydney and Sydney South West Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia</aff><aff id="I4"><label>4</label>Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia</aff><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>2</day><month>9</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>14</volume><fpage>111</fpage><lpage>111</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>21</day><month>5</month><year>2014</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>29</day><month>8</month><year>2014</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright © 2014 Arora et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Arora et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.</copyright-holder><license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"><license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/</ext-link>) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6831/14/111"></self-uri><abstract><sec><title>Background</title><p>The objective of this study was to analyse the readability of paediatric oral health education leaflets available in Australia.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>Forty paediatric oral health education materials were analysed for general readability according to the following parameters: Thoroughness; Textual framework; Terminology; and Readability (Flesch-Kincaid grade level (FKGL), Gunning Fog index (Fog) and Simplified Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG)).</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>Leaflets produced by the industry were among the hardest to read with an average readability at the 8th grade (8.4 ± 0.1). The readability of leaflets produced by the commercial sector was at the 7th grade (7.1 ± 1.7) and the government at the 6th grade (6.3 ± 1.9). The FKGL consistently yielded readabilities 2 grades below the Fog and SMOG indexes. In the content analyses, 14 essential paediatric oral health topics were noted and Early Childhood Caries (ECC) was identified as the most commonly used jargon term.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Paediatric oral health education materials are readily available, yet their quality and readability vary widely and may be difficult to read for disadvantaged populations in Australia. A redesign of these leaflets while taking literacy into consideration is suggested.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Dental caries</kwd><kwd>Oral health</kwd><kwd>Health literacy</kwd><kwd>Health communication</kwd><kwd>Leaflets</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></pmc></record>Pour manipuler ce document sous Unix (Dilib)
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