Figure 3. Patient perceptions of LLM generated side effect explanations.

Note: Wilcoxon ranksum test.

(a) Patient perception of text usefulness. Measured on a six-point Likert scale: 0=“not useful at all,” 5=“very useful.” (b) Patient perception of text comprehensibility. Measured on a six-point Likert scale, 0=“not understandable at all,” 5=“very easy to understand.” (c) Patients’ perceived anxiousness when reading the text. Measured on a six-point Likert scale: 0=”very little anxious/afraid,” 5=”very much anxious/afraid.