. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 3.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Health Educ. 2018 Jun 20;49(4):222–233. doi: 10.1080/19325037.2018.1473182

Table 3.

Readability assessments of breast cancer webpage by type of website, n=235

Type of Website	N (%)	Median SMOG Score (Grade level)	Interquartile Range
Commercial websites	86 (36.6)	11.1	10.1–12.3
Non-profit organization websites	56 (23.8)	10.9	9.7–11.9
Newspaper and other news media websites	41 (17.4)	10.7	9.9–11.6
Magazines and other media websites	20 (8.5)	10.8	9.4–11.6
Blogs/Independent authors	13 (5.5)	10.4	9.3–12.2
Educational institution websites	11 (4.7)	10.8	9.0–13.1
National agencies	8 (3.4)	10.9	9.7–11.5
All	235	10.9	9.9–11.9

Kruskal-Wallis statistic: 2.008; p=0.9189