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THE READABILITY AND HUMAN INTEREST OF INFORMATION LEAFLETS FROM MAJOR BRITISH CHARITIES: AN UNINTELLIGIBLE, BORING REPLICATION?
Author(s) -
Sturmey Peter
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
mental handicap research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.056
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1468-3148
pISSN - 0952-9608
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-3148.1993.tb00109.x
Subject(s) - readability , replication (statistics) , reading (process) , public interest , psychology , medicine , linguistics , political science , law , philosophy , virology
A sample of 32 leaflets designed for parents, carestaff and the general public by four major charities for people with mental handicaps were analysed for their readability and human interest. Approximately one‐third had some human interest and had reading ages under 18 years, however, a further third of leaflets had none or minimal human interest and reading ages over 18 years.