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  • Medical Communication
  • Linguistic Simplification
  • Health Literacy

Background:

  • Medical texts often contain complex linguistic constructions, hindering comprehension for the general population.
  • Effective communication of health information is crucial for patient engagement and informed decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To define complex linguistic constructions in medical texts.
  • To assess the impact of text simplification on patient comprehension.
  • To investigate potential overestimation of medical understanding by participants.

Main Methods:

  • Selection of 20 diverse medical texts (drugs, diseases, substances, institutions).
  • Manual simplification of identified complex constructions at syntactic, lexical, and semantic levels.
  • Comprehension testing using a questionnaire with 26 participants.

Main Results:

  • Simplified medical texts resulted in a statistically significant increase in correct answers compared to original technical texts.
  • Participants tended to overestimate their initial understanding of medical information.
  • No correlation was found between the time spent on the task and the accuracy of answers.

Conclusions:

  • Manual simplification of medical texts enhances patient comprehension.
  • Addressing linguistic complexity is vital for improving health literacy.
  • Self-assessment of medical knowledge may be unreliable; objective measures are necessary.