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KMID : 1002520140080020161
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Korean Journal of Health Service Management
2014 Volume.8 No. 2 p.161 ~ p.174
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Readability and Suitability Evaluation of Educational Materials on Diabetes Mellitus
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Chin Young-Ran
Choi Kyung-Won
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Abstract
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the readability and suitability of patients’ education materials on DM. A total of 34 materials on DM from public health centers, general hospitals, and internet web sites were evaluated for readability by ’graded system of vocabulary’, and suitability by ’The Korean version of SAM(Suitability Assessment of Materials)’. On the average, 28.3% of 1st grade reading level words, 27.1% of 5th grade level and over were included in educational materials. For suitability, 6(17.6%) were judged superior, 20(58.8%) adequate, 8(23.6%) inadequate. The reading level of the materials was higher than the recommended reading level(6th grade reading level). For suitability, most of materials were inadequate in some of items such as ’summary or review included’, ’context given’, ’interaction used’. It is proposed that in the development of patients’ educational materials, health literacy of target population should be considered.
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KEYWORD
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Teaching Materials, Health Literacy, Diabetes Mellitus
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