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| Health Education | 1 |
| Health Materials | 1 |
| Readability | 1 |
| Reading Comprehension | 1 |
| Technical Writing | 1 |
| Text Structure | 1 |
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| Reading Improvement | 1 |
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| Riche, Jan M. | 1 |
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Peer reviewedRiche, Jan M.; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1991
Identifies both text-based and reader-based characteristics that make health education material difficult for patients to understand. Finds that technical words, complex sentences, and unusual phrases increase the difficulty of comprehension, as does information that contradicts readers' common sense notions. (RS)
Descriptors: Adults, Health Education, Health Materials, Readability
