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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 7.

Comparison of consumer testing results and average grade level.

Material #, type, and topic Consumer testing results Readability
Measure Average comprehension score (%) Average numeric score a Average grade level
Material #1: print-colonoscopy 79 9 10.9
Material #2: print-colonoscopy 72 7 11.5
Material #3: print-colonoscopy 77 9.3   8.4
Material #4: A/V-colonoscopy 74 8.5 11.3
Material #5: A/V-colonoscopy 81 9.9   8.1
Material #6: A/V-colonoscopy 76 8.5 11.6
Material #7: print-inhaler/asthma 67 6.2 13.5
Material #8: print-inhaler/asthma 64 7.9 10.7
Material #9: print-inhaler/asthma 80 8.4   7.7
Material #10: A/V-inhaler/asthma 51 7.6 10.3
Material #11: A/V-inhaler/asthma 96 N/A 11.9
Material #12: A/V-inhaler/asthma 84 9.4   9.1
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Numeric score: 1 = hardest to understand/least actionable, 10 = easiest to understand/most actionable.