I foglietti illustrativi dei medicinali polacchi e italiani – indice di leggibilità di Robert Gunning
Polish and Italian patient information leaflets – the Gunning Fog Index Readability Formula
Author(s): Anna DydaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: patient information leaflets; medicine; readability; Gunning fog index
Summary/Abstract: Medicines constitute a crucial part in human’s life, and its proper use often depends on the correct understanding of a text that is attached to it. This article analyses the readability of this type of texts, that is, a patient information leaflets (PIL). The analysis contains, respectively, the texts of Polish PIL and the Italian ones. Gunning fog index was used to measure the readability of those texts.
Journal: Studia de Cultura
- Issue Year: 9/2017
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 78-91
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Italian