Evaluation of Quality and Readability of Health Information Websites Identified through India’s Major Search Engines

Table 4

Association between characteristics of websites with mean LIDA and mean readability scores.

Characteristics of websites	LIDA score; mean ± SD	value	FRES; mean ± SD	value	SMOG; mean ± SD	value	FKGL; mean ± SD	value
Provider
Government	82.1 ± 5.2		55.6 ± 16.6	0.19	9.5 ± 3.1	0.83	9.8 ± 3.8	0.86
NGO	73.1 ± 6.7		53.1 ± 13.1		10.2 ± 2.2		10.7 ± 2.8
Commercial	66 ± 6.7		42.6 ± 21.6		9.5 ± 3.1		10.3 ± 4.0
Intended audience
Consumers	71.3 ± 9.3	0.06	50.6 ± 18.7	0.22	9.5 ± 2.1		10.3 ± 3.6
Healthcare providers	81.3 ± 4.8		40.3 ± 8.7		12.2 ± 2		13.3 ± 2.6
Both	75.3 ± 9.1		57.03 ± 20.1		8.2 ± 2.4		8.2 ± 2.8
HONcode
Yes	76.6 ± 8.6	0.14	57.2 ± 17.6		8.8 ± 2.4	0.09	9.3 ± 3.1	0.15
No	71.9 ± 9.4		43.7 ± 16.6		10.5 ± 2.9		11.1 ± 3.8

⁢ significant at 0.01; 0.001 level.