Dural İbrahim Etem
Department of Cardiology, Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.
Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 2022 Dec;50(8):590-594. doi: 10.5543/tkda.2022.22420.
Informed consent forms are a contract between the patient and the doctor before the medical diagnosis and treatment. It is extremely important that the patient can read and understand such forms. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the readability levels of consent forms recommended by the Turkish Society of Cardiology used in cardiology clinics.
The number of words, syllables, letters, and characters of 20 consent forms that are used in cardiology clinics were calculated. The readability scores were calculated by using the formulas of Ateşman and Bezirci-Yılmaz.
It was found that the cardiology consent forms were readable at the 11th or 12th grade according to the Ateşman Index and at the high school level according to the Bezirci-Yılmaz Index.
We suggest that the informed consent forms recommended by the Turkish Society of Cardiology must be simplified from the level that requires high school education to the level that requires 6 years of education, which is the average schooling year in Turkey.
知情同意书是患者与医生在医疗诊断和治疗前签订的一份合同。患者能够阅读并理解此类表格极其重要。本研究的目的是调查心脏病学诊所使用的由土耳其心脏病学会推荐的同意书的可读性水平。
计算了心脏病学诊所使用的20份同意书的单词数、音节数、字母数和字符数。通过使用阿泰斯曼（Ateşman）和贝齐尔吉-伊尔马兹（Bezirci-Yılmaz）的公式计算可读性得分。
根据阿泰斯曼指数，发现心脏病学同意书的可读性相当于11年级或12年级水平；根据贝齐尔吉-伊尔马兹指数，相当于高中水平。
我们建议，土耳其心脏病学会推荐的知情同意书必须从要求高中教育水平简化到要求6年教育水平，这是土耳其的平均受教育年限。
