Table 2.
Distribution of informed consent forms, mean readability scores across different templates, and readability scores across template and the completed informed consent forms
| Type | Description | Number | Flesch reading ease | Flesch-Kincaid grade level |
Flesch-Kincaid
age level |
Gunning fog
index |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Template |
ICF
(mean ± SD) |
Template |
ICF
(mean ± SD) |
Template |
ICF
(mean ± SD) |
Template |
ICF
(mean ± SD) |
||||
| 1 | CRTSDL* | 16 | 28.90 | 34.28 ± 8.82 | 10.51 | 10.59 ± 1.39 | 16.71 (17 years) |
16.79 ± 1.39 (17 years) |
13.33 | 14.5 ± 1.36 | |
| 2 | CTC** | 9 | 40.81 | 37.96 ± 15.21 | 8.69 | 9.97 ± 1.03 | 14.90 (15 years) |
16.18 ± 0.95 (17 years) |
12.15 | 14.4 ± 0.93 | |
| 3 | WHO*** | 2 | 44.49 | 30.19 ± 7.42 | 7.76 | 11.39 ± 1.12 | 13.96 (14 years) |
17.6 ± 1.05 (18 years) |
10.54 | 16.51 ± 1.93 | |
| 4 | MUMS**** | 2 | 27.90 | 19.3 ± 10.20 | 11.03 | 13.12 ± 2.18 | 17.23 (18 years) |
19.33 ± 2.32 (18 years) |
15.15 | 17.87 ± 2.75 | |
| 5 | Bam | 11 | 30.80 | 31.71 ± 13.12 | 10.33 | 10.89 ± 1.54 | 16.53 (17 years) |
17.1 ± 1.90 (18 years) |
14.14 | 14.43 ± 1.86 | |
| 6 | Private clinic | 5 | 42.22 | 26.87 ± 15.31 | 8.49 | 11.49 ± 1.33 | 14.70 (15 years) |
17.49 ± 2.90 (18 years) |
13.88 | 13.87 ± 2.12 | |
| P -value across different templates | 0.886227 | 0.499452 | 0.499452 | 0.351126 | |||||||
*
Center for Research and Training in Skin Diseases and Leprosy
**
Clinical Trial Center of Tehran University of Medical Sciences
***
World Health Organization
****
Mashhad University of Medical Sciences