{"id":6793,"date":"2020-05-12T16:51:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2021-03-17T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:52:08","slug":"public-health-communication-in-time-of-crisis-readability-of-on-line-covid-19-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/12\/public-health-communication-in-time-of-crisis-readability-of-on-line-covid-19-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Health Communication in Time of Crisis: Readability of On-Line COVID-19 Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"40\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The mean readability score for the first 100 English language websites found using the search term \u201ccoronavirus\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">estimated<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0that readability levels for nearly all websites exceeded the 10<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0grade<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0by at least four of five tests<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, with one test finding a mean readability level of grade 18 (graduate school level) across the sampled websites. The majority of COVID-19 messages are thus difficult for the average American to read<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"40\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Guidelines on behavior that are comm<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">unicated to the public should\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">be readable at an \u201ceasy\u201d level.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Basch<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (May 11, 2020). Public Health Communication in Time of Crisis: Readability of On-Line COVID-19 Information. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/dmp.2020.151\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1017\/dmp.2020.151<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mean readability score for the first 100 English language websites found using the search term \u201ccoronavirus\u201d\u00a0estimated\u00a0that readability levels for nearly all websites exceeded the 10th\u00a0grade\u00a0by at least four of five tests, with one test finding a mean readability level of grade 18 (graduate school level) across the sampled websites. The majority of COVID-19 messages&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/12\/public-health-communication-in-time-of-crisis-readability-of-on-line-covid-19-information\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6794,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions\/6794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}