That includes guidance from the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The team assigned readability levels to each source based on different formulas, including the Flesch-Kincaid grade level, which determines the level of education a person needs to be able to easily read a piece of text. All 18 sources, the researchers found, uniformly exceed recommended reading levels.
The CDC website also hosts an"everyday words index" for public health communication. For instance, instead of using the term"respiratory," it recommends describing respiratory illnesses as conditions that can affect a person's nose, throat and lungs and make it difficult to breathe. On an international level, the World Health Organization's site reads at just below a 12th grade level. The website of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control received the highest grade level, 13.1, and that of the Netherlands government received the lowest, 7.8, the researchers reported in JAMA Open Network.Coronavirus resources below a sixth- to eighth-grade reading level are few and far between, Dexter said.
"When that doesn't happen, it opens up the potential for exacerbating inequality in access to information," Dexter said.
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