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We examined the health literacy burden of Public Advisories (PAs) before and after implementation of a new template.
Improvements made to Health Canada's PA template had a measurable, positive effect on reducing the health literacy burden, based on the SAM results.
This has led to a variety of tools being used to measure the health literacy burden, many of which vary in validity and applicability [ 18– 20].
Implementation of a revised PA template reduced the health literacy burden of Health Canada's PAs as measured by SAM tests; however, the revisions did not improve readability.
Text layout, organization of information, and pictures are completely ignored, even though they may be important in reducing the health literacy burden for the reader [ 25].
Although only capable of providing an estimate of the health literacy burden, SAM tests consider a greater array of health literacy factors than readability tests.
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