Languages for different health information readers: multitrait-multimethod content analysis of Cochrane systematic reviews textual summary formats.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although subjective expressions and linguistic fluency have been shown as important factors in processing and interpreting textual facts, analyses of these traits in textual health information for different audiences are lacking. We analyzed the readability and linguistic psychological and emotional characteristics of different textual summary formats of Cochrane systematic reviews.

Methods

We performed a multitrait-multimethod cross-sectional study of Press releases available at Cochrane web site (n = 162) and corresponding Scientific abstracts (n = 158), Cochrane Clinical Answers (n = 35) and Plain language summaries in English (n = 156), French (n = 101), German (n = 41) and Croatian (n = 156). We used SMOG index to assess text readability of all text formats,

SUBMITTER: Karacic J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6451281 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature