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Table 2 Length and readability of 248 PICFs according to sponsor type

From: Creating concise and readable patient information sheets for interventional studies in Australia: are we there yet?

 

All (n = 248)

Commercial (n = 77)

Non-commercial (n = 171)

p (comm versus non-comm)

Number of pages

8 (6–15)

18 (14–22)

7 (5–9)

< 0.001

Number of words

3848 (2536–6874)

7826 (6720–9666)

3018 (1917–4258)

< 0.001

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level

11.4 (1.1)

11.3 (0.9)

11.4 (1.1)

0.41

Flesch Reading Ease

49.3 (5.7)

50.1 (5.0)

49.1 (6.0)

0.15

SMOG

13.2 (0.9)

12.9 (0.7)

13.3 (1.0)

0.03

  1. PICF Participant information sheet and consent forms, SMOG Simple Measure of Gobbledygook
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