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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Oct 28.
Published in final edited form as: Patient Educ Couns. 2014 Jun 12;96(3):395–403. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2014.05.027

Table 1.

Summary of raters, material types, and PEMAT version for each round of reliability testing.

Round Raters (#) Material characteristics
PEMAT characteristics
Materialsa (#) Topics (#) Language(s) Total items Understandability items Actionability items Response scale Item instruction and examples
1   8 16 (P = 11, A/V = 5)   3 English and Spanishb 32 26 6 4 point None
2 12 12 (P = 8, A/V = 4)   2 English 32 24 8 2 point Few items had examples
3   2 46 (P = 23, A/V = 23) 33 English 32 25 7 2 point Full user’s guide
4   2 46 (P = 23, A/V = 23) 33 English 32 25 7 2 point Full user’s guide
a

P = print materials, A/V = audiovisual materials; in rounds 1 and 2, Print refers to both websites and pdfs.

b

Spanish materials were not tested after round 1 because the reliability results were poor and we needed to limit the points of variation in our testing approach.