Polish and Italian patient information leaflets – the Gunning Fog Index Readability Formula Cover Image

I foglietti illustrativi dei medicinali polacchi e italiani – indice di leggibilità di Robert Gunning
Polish and Italian patient information leaflets – the Gunning Fog Index Readability Formula

Author(s): Anna Dyda
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: patient information leaflets; medicine; readability; Gunning fog index

Summary/Abstract: Medicines constitute a crucial part in human’s life, and its proper use often depends on the correct understanding of a text that is attached to it. This article analyses the readability of this type of texts, that is, a patient information leaflets (PIL). The analysis contains, respectively, the texts of Polish PIL and the Italian ones. Gunning fog index was used to measure the readability of those texts.

  • Issue Year: 9/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 78-91
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Italian