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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Sep 4.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Nurs Res. 2025 May 26;34(5):215–222. doi: 10.1177/10547738251343418

Table 2.

Understandability, Actionability, and Readability Scores of Educational Materials.

Material Language Understandability score (%)a Actionability score (%)a Readability scoreb Readability levelb SOL formulac
English 83.3 60.0 42 9.0
Spanish 61.5 20.0 227 18.0 10.8

Note. PEMAT-P = Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool for Printable Materials; SMOG = Simple Measure of Gobbledygook; SOL = Spanish Oral language.

a

As determined by PEMAT-P.

b

As determined by SMOG.

c

After the SOL Formula was applied to the SMOG score.