{"id":2201,"date":"2020-11-16T12:36:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2020-11-17T12:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T20:37:41","slug":"readability-of-online-covid-19-health-information-a-comparison-between-four-english-speaking-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/16\/readability-of-online-covid-19-health-information-a-comparison-between-four-english-speaking-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Readability of Online COVID-19 Health Information: A Comparison between Four English Speaking Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study evaluating the readability of online information from Google search results related to COVID-19 found that only 17.2% of webpages were presented at a universally-readable level. The first 20 webpage URLs for searches for \u201cCOVID\u201d, \u201cCOVID-19\u201d, and \u201ccoronavirus\u201d from multiple predominantly English-speaking countries were evaluated on several readability assessment tools. There was a significant difference in readability based on the site\u2019s information source, with public health and government organizations presenting the most readable material.<\/p>\n<p><i>Worrall et al. (Dec 13, 2020). Readability of Online COVID-19 Health Information: A Comparison between Four English Speaking Countries. BMC Public Health. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12889-020-09710-5\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12889-020-09710-5<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study evaluating the readability of online information from Google search results related to COVID-19 found that only 17.2% of webpages were presented at a universally-readable level. The first 20 webpage URLs for searches for \u201cCOVID\u201d, \u201cCOVID-19\u201d, and \u201ccoronavirus\u201d from multiple predominantly English-speaking countries were evaluated on several readability assessment tools. There was a significant&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/16\/readability-of-online-covid-19-health-information-a-comparison-between-four-english-speaking-countries\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}