Open AccessReadability of informed consent
Author(s) -
V M Idoate
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
anales del sistema sanitario de navarra
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.175
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2340-3527
pISSN - 1137-6627
DOI - 10.23938/assn.0732
Subject(s) - readability , paragraph , informed consent , newspaper , psychology , medicine , computer science , law , linguistics , alternative medicine , world wide web , political science , philosophy , pathology
A comparative study has been made of the readability of informed consent form of the Navarra Health Service, using the Flesh and SMOG formulas. Signed editorial articles from the local newspapers Diario de Navarra and Diario de Noticias were used as a term of comparison. The results show that the readability of informed consent form is -4 (with a second paragraph of -9), while the editorial articles showed a comprehensibility of 22. The text of the second paragraph of the informed consent form is barely comprehensible, and alternative texts that are more easily comprehensible must be studied.