Table 3 Objective and subjective comprehension in general and specialized population
General population (N = 324) | Specialized population (N = 100) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Infographic (N = 120) | Plain text (N = 114) | Video-abstract (N = 90) | p-value | Policy brief (N = 46) | Executive summary (N = 54) | p-value | |
Objective comprehension: No. of questions correctly responded (out of 3 questions) (N [%]) | |||||||
• Three | 88 (73.33) | 79 (69.30) | 49 (54.44) | 0.014* | 28 (60.87) | 40 (74.07) | 0.174 |
• Two | 20 (16.67) | 24 (21.05) | 26 (28.89) | 16 (34.78) | 12 (22.22) | ||
• One | 8 (6.67) | 7 (6.14) | 11 (12.22) | 2 (4.35) | 2 (3.70) | ||
• None | 4 (3.33) | 4 (3.51) | 4 (4.44) | 0 | 0 | ||
Subjective comprehension: How sure are you about your answers? (N [%]) | |||||||
• Not at all (just guessing) | 0 | 0 | 2 (2.22) | 0.883 | 0 | 0 | 0.739 |
• Not very sure | 3 (2.50) | 5 (4.39) | 3 (3.33) | 2 (4.35) | 2 (3.70) | ||
• More or less | 27 (22.50) | 22 (19.30) | 16 (17.78) | 13 (28.26) | 11 (20.37) | ||
• Quite sure | 49 (40.83) | 46 (40.35) | 34 (37.78) | 22 (47.83) | 33 (61.11) | ||
• Completely sure | 41 (34.17) | 41 (35.96) | 35 (38.89) | 9 (19.57) | 8 (14.81) | ||