| Information type and source | Number of webpages | Readability (SMOG): median (range) |
Patient Education Assessment Tool (PEMAT): median (range) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Understandability | Actionability | |||
| Vaccination (standard) | ||||
| Australia | ||||
| Department of Health | 11 | 13 (12–14) | 80% | 100% |
| New South Wales | 1 | 12 | 75% | 60% |
| Queensland | 1 | 12 | 93% | 60% |
| Victoria | 3 | 14 (13–15) | 86% | 60% |
| New Zealand | 3 | 13 (11–14) | 86% | 60% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 12 | 83% | 80% |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 16 | 13 (11–16) | 87% | 100% |
| European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control | 1 | 18 | 25% | 0% |
| World Health Organization | 1 | 15 | 62% | 40% |
| Physical distancing (standard) | ||||
| Australia | ||||
| Department of Health | 1 | 12 | 93% | 100% |
| New South Wales | 1 | 13 | 100% | 80% |
| Queensland | 1 | 11 | 93% | 60% |
| Victoria | 1 | 11 | 92% | 60% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 11 | 85% | 60% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 11 | 77% | 60% |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 1 | 13 | 93% | 100% |
| European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control | 2 | 14 (12–15) | 63% | 60% |
| World Health Organization | 1 | 11 | 93% | 100% |
| Masks (standard) | ||||
| Australia | ||||
| Department of Health | 1 | 11 | 87% | 100% |
| New South Wales | 1 | 10 | 100% | 80% |
| Queensland | 1 | 10 | 93% | 60% |
| Victoria | 7 | 11 (9–12) | 94% | 100% |
| New Zealand | 3 | 9 (9–12) | 93% | 100% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 14 | 77% | 60% |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | 7 | 10 (9–12) | 87% | 100% |
| World Health Organization | 1 | 12 | 92% | 100% |
| Vaccination (easy read) | ||||
| Australia (Department of Health) | 11 | 10 (8–10) | 88% (87–88%) | 60% (60–60%) |
| New Zealand | 1 | 10 | 88% | 60% |
| Physical distancing (easy read) | ||||
| Australia | ||||
| Department of Health | 1 | 7 | 88% | 80% |
| Victoria | 1 | 7 | 88% | 80% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 8 | 88% | 60% |
| Masks (easy read) | ||||
| Australia | ||||
| Department of Health | 1 | 7 | 88% | 80% |
| Victoria | 3 | 7 (7–8) | 88% (88‒88%) | 60 % (60‒60%) |
| New Zealand | 2 | 9 (8–10) | 88% (88‒88%) | 80% (80‒80%) |
COVID‐19 = coronavirus disease 2019; SMOG = Simple Measure of Gobbledygook.
*
The materials evaluated are listed in the online Supporting Information. Readability scores and “easy read” PEMAT scores were calculated separately for each webpage; PEMAT scores of “standard content” were calculated by topic.