@文章{信息:doi/10.2196/30085，作者=“Moon, Hana和Lee, Geon Ho和Cho, Yoon Jeong”，标题=“面向普通公众的韩国国家COVID-19门户网站的韩语COVID-19信息的可读性:横断面信息流行病学研究”，期刊=“JMIR Form Res”，年=“2022”，月=“3”，日=“3”，卷=“6”，数=“3”，页=“e30085”，关键词=“COVID-19;健康知识;可读性;公共卫生;卫生公平;消费者健康信息;信息传播;健康教育;电子健康;在线; social media; pandemic; infodemic", abstract="Background: The coronavirus pandemic has increased reliance on the internet as a tool for disseminating information; however, information is useful only when it can be understood. Prior research has shown that web-based health information is not always easy to understand. It is not yet known whether the Korean-language COVID-19 information from the internet is easy for the general public to understand. Objective: We aimed to evaluate the readability of Korean-language COVID-19 information intended for the general public from the national COVID-19 portal of South Korea. Methods: A total of 122 publicly available COVID-19 information documents written in Korean were obtained from the South Korean national COVID-19 portal. We determined the level of readability (at or below ninth grade, 10th to 12th grade, college, or professional) of each document using a readability tool for Korean-language text. We measured the reading time, character count, word count, sentence count, and paragraph count for each document. We also evaluated the characteristics of difficult-to-read documents to modify the readability from difficult to easy. Results: The median readability level was at a professional level; 90.2{\%} (110/122) of the information was difficult to read. In all 4 topics, few documents were easy to read (overview: 5/12, 41.7{\%}; prevention: 6/97, 6.2{\%}; test: 0/5, 0{\%}; treatment: 1/8, 12.5{\%}; P=.006), with a median 11th-grade readability level for overview, a median professional readability level for prevention, and median college readability levels for test and treatment. Difficult-to-read information had the following characteristics in common: literacy style, medical jargon, and unnecessary detail. Conclusions: In all 4 topics, most of the Korean-language COVID-19 web-based information intended for the general public provided by the national COVID-19 portal of South Korea was difficult to read; the median readability levels exceeded the recommended ninth-grade level. Readability should be a key consideration in developing public health documents, which play an important role in disease prevention and health promotion. ", issn="2561-326X", doi="10.2196/30085", url="https://formative.www.mybigtv.com/2022/3/e30085", url="https://doi.org/10.2196/30085", url="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35072633" }