{"id":5260,"date":"2021-03-01T01:26:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T09:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5260"},"modified":"2021-03-02T01:27:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T09:27:16","slug":"assessing-the-readability-of-covid-19-testing-messages-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/01\/assessing-the-readability-of-covid-19-testing-messages-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing the Readability of Covid-19 Testing Messages on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Only 6 out of the first 50 results using a Google search for \u201cCOVID-19 testing\u201d had an appropriate readability score. Of these six, two were deemed appropriate by 3 tests (Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), Gunning Fog Index (GFI), and Coleman-Liau Index (CLI)) and four were deemed appropriate by 2 tests (FKGL and GFI). None of the websites had appropriate readability scores on all five assessments.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>Garcia et al. (Feb 27, 2021). Assessing the Readability of Covid-19 Testing Messages on the Internet. Journal of Community Health. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10900-021-00973-6\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10900-021-00973-6<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 6 out of the first 50 results using a Google search for \u201cCOVID-19 testing\u201d had an appropriate readability score. Of these six, two were deemed appropriate by 3 tests (Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), Gunning Fog Index (GFI), and Coleman-Liau Index (CLI)) and four were deemed appropriate by 2 tests (FKGL and GFI). None of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/01\/assessing-the-readability-of-covid-19-testing-messages-on-the-internet\/\">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":[29,27],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-5260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-public-health","tag-testing","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260","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=5260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5261,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5260\/revisions\/5261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5260"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}