The Readability of Information and Consent Forms in Clinical Research in France
Figure 2
Flesch index for each category of reference texts, compared to those of information and consent forms.
Central bars correspond to the medians, the ends of the boxes to the 25th and 75th percentiles and ends of the bars to the maximum and minimum values. ICF: Information and Consent Form. N.S: Not Significant. ICFs (N = 275) have significantly (p<0.05) lower readability scores than literary extracts (N = 9), political speeches (N = 5) and articles from the press (N = 51), but similar scores to everyday contracts (N = 6).