Patient literacy and the readability of smoking education literature.
This study was designed to determine if primary care clinic patients read at a level congruent to the reading grade level of available smoking literature. Reading estimates of smoking education literature (N = 49) ranged from grade 3 to college level (median = 9.5). Reading skills of 258 smoking patients were estimated by reported years of schooling (median = 10), and by scores on the Wide-Range Achievement Test (median = 6). A serious disparity existed between the reading estimates of smoking education literature and the literacy skills of patients in our sample.
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School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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D004522:Educational Status; D006266:Health Education; D006801:Humans; D010174:Pamphlets; D011932:Reading; D000074606:Smoking Prevention