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Table 4 Readability scores of the included websites (n = 46)

From: Quality of websites about long-acting reversible contraception: a descriptive cross-sectional study

LIX score

What score represent

Equivalent grade levela

Government or health care system, n (%)

Pharmaceutical company, n (%)

Independent information website or charity/organization, n (%)

Total sample, n (%)

<  25

Easy-to-read, children’s books

1–4

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

25–29

Easy level, fiction

5–6

1 (8)

0 (0)

0 (0)

1 (2)

30–39

Moderate level, newspapers

6–8

10 (76)

4 (27)

3 (17)

17 (37)

40–49

Difficult level, official texts

9–11

1 (8)

10 (66)

11 (61)

22 (48)

50–60

Very difficult level, bureaucratic texts

11-College

1 (8)

1 (7)

4 (22)

6 (13)

>  60

Highest difficulty level, dissertations

College

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

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