Sercu Lies
Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, PO BOX 3308, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
PEC Innov. 2022 Nov 8;1:100099. doi: 10.1016/j.pecinn.2022.100099. eCollection 2022 Dec.
to evaluate articles on depression published in popular magazines with respect to understandability, reliability, and actionability. To determine whether these articles can educate patients. To investigate whether the Clear Communication Index (CCI), developed to assess the quality of patient education materials produced by the medical sector, can be used to evaluate articles published in popular magazines.
The sample consists of 81 articles from 24 different Flemish and Dutch popular magazines. The articles were evaluated using the CCI. Correlational and -test analyses were performed on the data.
No more than one-fifth of all articles were found to be of quality. Significant positive correlations were found between actionability, reliability, and understandability. No significant differences were found between health magazines and other more generally oriented magazines.
Overall, our findings demonstrate the relative lack of power as patient educational materials of articles on depression published in popular magazines for people with low or average mental health literacy levels.
Using the Clear Communication Index, the quality of Dutch medium popular magazine articles on depression are analyzed. The study design allowed for the comparison of different types of magazines. Health magazines do no score better than generally-focused magazines.
评估在大众杂志上发表的关于抑郁症的文章在可理解性、可靠性和可操作性方面的情况。确定这些文章是否能够教育患者。调查为评估医疗部门制作的患者教育材料质量而开发的清晰沟通指数（CCI）是否可用于评估大众杂志上发表的文章。
样本包括来自24种不同佛兰芒语和荷兰语大众杂志的81篇文章。使用CCI对这些文章进行评估。对数据进行相关性分析和t检验分析。
所有文章中质量达标的不超过五分之一。可操作性、可靠性和可理解性之间存在显著的正相关。健康杂志和其他更具综合性的杂志之间未发现显著差异。
总体而言，我们的研究结果表明，对于心理健康素养水平较低或中等的人群来说，大众杂志上发表的关于抑郁症的文章作为患者教育材料的作用相对有限。
使用清晰沟通指数分析荷兰语大众杂志上关于抑郁症文章的质量。该研究设计允许对不同类型的杂志进行比较。健康杂志的得分并不比综合性杂志更高。
