| Grant number: | 16/11609-4 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation |
| Start date: | August 01, 2016 |
| End date: | July 31, 2017 |
| Field of knowledge: | Health Sciences - Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy |
| Principal Investigator: | Rafael Zambelli de Almeida Pinto |
| Grantee: | Flávia Alves de Carvalho |
| Host Institution: | Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil |
Abstract Consumers of healthcare are increasingly searching online for evidence about interventions in physical therapy. However, the internet contains evidence of highly variable quality, which can increase the demand for treatments with poor or no evidence at all. It is necessary, then, that scientific reports have summaries written for the lay public, with plain language about clinical results. The website Physiotherapy Choices was designed to help the search for articles in the field of physical therapy for it has a lay interface of the Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro). There are many formulas to evaluate the readability, that is, how easy to read the text is. The Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), different from other score systems, translates its results to the United States grade level, making it easier to interpret and compare the results. The website Readability score is an online tool widely used and recommended that calculates these scores, including the FKGL, from texts written in English, in addition to words and syllabus counting. The main objective of the study is to investigate whether the lay summaries are published at a readable level for lay consumers. | |
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