Meleo-Erwin Zoë, Basch Corey, Fera Joseph, Ethan Danna, Garcia Philip
Department of Public Health, William Paterson University, Wayne, New Jersey 07470, USA.
Department of Mathematics, Lehman College, The City University of New York, Bronx, New York 10468.
Health Promot Perspect. 2019 May 25;9(2):156-160. doi: 10.15171/hpp.2019.22. eCollection 2019.
Web-based patient education literature has been shown to be written at reading levels far above what is recommended. Little is known about the overall readability of current internet-based bariatric surgery information. The purpose of this study was to assess the readability of current bariatric material on the internet. The term "weight loss surgery" was searched using the Chrome browser on the first 15pages of URLs that appeared with content written in English. Using five readability measures, scores were generated using Readable.io for written content on a sample of 96 websites. Scores were sorted into the readability categories of "easy," "average," and "difficult." Almost 93% of websites, both .com and .org, sampled received an unacceptable readability score on each assessment. Accurate and appropriate information about bariatric procedures is critical for patient comprehension and adherence to recommended protocols.
基于网络的患者教育文献显示，其编写的阅读水平远远高于推荐水平。对于当前基于互联网的减肥手术信息的整体可读性，人们了解甚少。本研究的目的是评估当前互联网上减肥相关资料的可读性。使用Chrome浏览器在出现的前15页英文内容的网址中搜索“减肥手术”一词。使用五种可读性衡量标准，通过Readable.io对96个网站样本的书面内容生成分数。分数被分类为“容易”、“中等”和“困难”的可读性类别。在每次评估中，抽样的几乎93%的网站（包括.com和.org）都获得了不可接受的可读性分数。关于减肥手术程序的准确和适当信息对于患者理解和遵守推荐方案至关重要。
