Table 2. REALM and NLAI Scores for Nutrition Education Clients Participating in Pilot Study on Nutrition Literacy, 2011–2012.

Category	No. of Clients Evaluated	Mean (SD)	Range
REALM scorea	25	63.9 (3.8)	50–66
Time it took to complete NLAI, min	20	8.4 (3.0)	4–15
NLAI scoreb, % correct	26	86.8 (9.6)	58.3–100.0
Readability of educational materials, grade levelc	23	7.0 (1.1)	3.0–7.6

Abbreviations: REALM, Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine; NLAI, Nutrition Literacy Assessment Instrument.

^a Based on maximum score of 66.

^b Although the maximum possible score on the NLAI is 40, some clients were not instructed to complete the entire instrument; thus, we converted scores to percentage correct.

^c Readability assessed by Flesh-Kincaid Grade Level in Microsoft Word 2010 (Microsoft Corp, Redmond, Washington).