Online Plain Language Tool and Health Information Quality: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Complex and ineffective health communication is a critical source of health inequity and occurs despite repeated policy directives to provide health information that is easy to understand and applies health literacy principles.

Objective

To evaluate the effectiveness of the Sydney Health Literacy Lab Health Literacy Editor, an easy-to-use online plain language tool that supports health information providers to apply health literacy guidelines to written health information.

Design, setting, and participants

This randomized clinical trial, conducted online in Australia from May 2023 to February 2024, included a convenience sample of health information providers with no previous experience using the Health Literacy Editor. Analysts were blinded to study group.

SUBMITTER: Ayre J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581667 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature