Table 2.

Understandability of the major statement and inclusion of quantitative information (N = 50).

	Mean	Standard deviation
Number of sentences	6.68	2.49
Words per sentence	15.60	3.79
% Long sentences (10 or more words)	58.43	24.48
% Complex sentences	26.77	19.94
Number of medical terms	3.00	1.58
Reading level
Fry grade reading level	11.02	1.76
Gunning fog index	13.10	2.43
Flesch-Kincaid reading ease test	49.56	10.64
	n	%
At least 1 medical term	48	96
Used lay language to explain medical terms	7	14
At least one abbreviation	16	32
Passive voice	16	32
Syntactic ambiguity	9	18
Double negatives	4	8
Risk frequency or severity numbers or visuals	0	0
Risk frequency words	35	70
Risk severity words	30	60
Comparative information	8	16