A Linguistic Analysis of Health Literacy Demands of Chronic Kidney Disease Patient Education Materials

Background: Instruments to assess the quality and comprehensibility of printed patient education materials may lack proper consideration of how readers derive meaning from text. The Evaluative Linguistic Framework (ELF) considers how factors that influence readers' expectations about health car...

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Main Authors: Suzanne Morony, Angela C. Webster, Rachelle Buchbinder, Suzanne Kirkendall, Kirsten J. McCaffery, Rosemary Clerehan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SLACK Incorporated 2018-01-01
Series:Health Literacy Research and Practice
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Online Access:https://www.healio.com/public-health/journals/hlrp/2018-1-2-1/%7B3a00f5d8-bc9e-4604-8928-defd0cd3520f%7D/a-linguistic-analysis-of-health-literacy-demands-of-chronic-kidney-disease-patient-education-materials