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Table 3 Flesch Reading Ease scores for 248 PICFs according to key features of interest

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

Feature

Feature present (mean (SD))

Feature absent (mean (SD))

p value

Illustrations

N = 38

50.0 (6.7)

N = 210

49.3 (5.5)

0.49

Tables

N = 99

50.6 (4.7)

N = 149

48.5 (6.2)

0.004

Commercial PICFs

N = 77

50.1 (5.0)

N = 171

49.1 (6.0)

0.22

Self-consent

N = 187

48.7 (5.7)

N = 61

51.6 (0.9)

< 0.001

  1. PICF Participant information sheets and consent forms, SD standard deviation