Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of websites with health- and nonhealth-related authors for DISCERN, the Journal of American Medical Association benchmark, and Flesch Reading Ease adapted to Brazilian Portuguese.
| Websites | S1a | S2a | S3a |
DISCERN (S1+S2) |
JAMAb | FRE-BPc | |
| Health-related authors (n=38) | |||||||
| Mean (SD)d,e | 19.58 (5.76) | 14.68 (5.02) | 2.34 (0.82) | 34.26 (8.85) | 1.05 (1.01) | 63.26 (10.15) | |
| Median | 18.00 | 14.00 | 2.00 | 33.00 | 1.00 | 63.87 | |
| Minimum | 11.00 | 7.00 | 1.00 | 18.00 | 0.00 | 37.98 | |
| Maximum | 34.00 | 26.00 | 4.00 | 58.00 | 3.00 | 88.23 | |
| Nonhealth-related authors (n=37) | |||||||
| Mean (SD)d,e | 18.19 (5.76) | 14.49 (5.75) | 2.05 (0.88) | 32.68 (9.33) | 1.19 (0.94) | 59.75 (10.34) | |
| Median | 18.00 | 15.00 | 2.00 | 33.00 | 1.00 | 62.55 | |
| Minimum | 8.00 | 7.00 | 1.00 | 18.00 | 0.00 | 46.24 | |
| Maximum | 33.00 | 28.00 | 4.00 | 60.00 | 3.00 | 72.73 | |
aS1, S2, and S3: 3 different sections of DISCERN.
bJAMA: the Journal of American Medical Association.
cFRE-BP: Flesch Reading Ease adapted to Brazilian Portuguese.
d,eSignificant statistical differences between the groups (Mann-Whitney U test, P<.05).