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- Title
Patient literacy and the readability of smoking education literature.
- Authors
Meade, C D; Byrd, J C
- Abstract
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.
- Publication
American journal of public health, 1989, Vol 79, Issue 2, p204
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2105/ajph.79.2.204