Readability and Quality of English and Spanish Online Health Information about Cochlear Implants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

According to the American Medical Association, Internet web site health information should be written at or below a 6th grade reading level. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the readability and quality of cochlear implant web site health information.

Study design

Cross-sectional web site analysis.

Setting

Four Internet search engines involving the top 200 web sites (English and Spanish).

Intervention/methods

"Cochlear implant" was queried in four Internet search engines, and the top 200 English and Spanish web sites were aggregated. After removing duplicates, the web sites were evaluated for readability by using the following validated online readability calculators: Flesch Reading Ease score for English web sites and the Fernandez-Huerta For

SUBMITTER: Nix E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9928885 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature