Table II.

Readability of alopecia areata online materials in 5 European languages

Language	Search term	Lix	#sentences	#words	w/s	p-value
English	alopecia areata	43 ± 9	69 ± 43	1,097 ± 649	17 ± 6	0.004*
	alopecia areata treatment	47 ± 5	61 ± 41	1,003 ± 590	17 ± 3
German	alopecia areata	53 ± 5	74 ± 65	940 ± 678	14 ± 3	0.119
	alopecia areata behandlung	55 ± 5	44 ± 25	657 ± 379	15 ± 2
Italian	alopecia areata	58 ± 6	70 ± 63	1,340 ± 1200	20 ± 3	0.036*
	alopecia areata cura	62 ± 6	42 ± 49	970 ± 1028	25 ± 6
French	pelade	51 ± 4	61 ± 42	1,083 ± 794	22 ± 7	0.025*
	pelade traitement	55 ± 7	34 ± 24	710 ± 456	18 ± 2
Spanish	alopecia areata	52 ± 5	41 ± 16	780 ± 325	19 ± 3	0.014*
	alopecia areata tratamiento	58 ± 11	34 ± 18	732 ± 260	24 ± 10

#: number of; w/s: words/sentence ratio;

^*statistically significant; p: p-value of difference between AA and AA-treatment Lix score for given language. Data were presented as mean±standard deviation; fifferences across all languages in mean Lix score, number of sentences, words, and words/sentence ratio were all statistically significant (all p < 0.05).