Health Promotion Project, Part F: Critiquing Instructional Material Promoting Physical Activity and Heart Health in Middle-Aged Adults

Lifestyle Changes for Primary Disease Prevention: Promoting Physical Activity and Heart Health in Middle-Aged Adults

For this assignment, you will perform two critiques of health-related written materials. First, you will evaluate health information on a web site for credibility using the criteria found at the Institutes of Health. Use the questions posed to evaluate the health website you intend to recommend to your audience. Next, you will utilize the FRY Readability Scale to evaluate the readability of a printable brochure from a health education brochure found on a website (e.g., American Heart Association, myPlate.gov, American Diabetes Association).

Part I: How To Evaluate Health Information on the Internet

Criteria (visit the National Institutes of Health website)

1. Identify one health-related website to which you may refer patients.
2. Evaluate the web site using the National Institutes of Health criteria, answering the questions on the provided worksheet.

Part II: Fry Graph Readability Formula (visit the Fry Graph website)

1. Identify a health education brochure from a health website (e.g., American Heart Association, myPlate.gov, American Diabetes Association).
2. Randomly select three separate 100-word passages from the brochure meant for patient education using the directions on the Fry graph.
3. Calculate the readability level of the selected brochure.

Directions: Download and complete the fillable PDF worksheet (Part F) provided. Once finished, save the document to your computer (as a .pdf) with your last name in the filename. Submit the completed worksheet. Please be sure that the assignment uploaded is the one intended.