Nemoto Kiyotaka, Tachikawa Hirokazu, Sodeyama Noriko, Endo Goh, Hashimoto Kouki, Mizukami Katsuyoshi, Asada Takashi
Division of Psychiatry, Tsukuba University Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan.
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci. 2007 Jun;61(3):243-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2007.01650.x.
Although the Internet has been widely used in Japan, the quality of information on mental health-related issues has not been evaluated so far. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the current status of Japanese websites that deal with mental health, mental disorders, and their associated matters. Using a search engine, Google, 37 websites were identified that exclusively contain information on mental health or mental disorders. The characteristics of the sites were then examined, along with variety of mental disorders mentioned, and quality of contents for each of the 37 websites. More than half of the websites were set up, at least in part, for commercial purposes and only 27% of sites were owned by professionals. Mood disorder, panic disorder, and schizophrenia were the three most commonly referred disorders on websites. Aside from some exceptions, the quality of information was inadequate, especially that regarding treatment. Most of the websites on mental health and mental disorders examined in the present study have scope for improvement. The challenge is to establish a system to evaluate the sites and to motivate each webmaster to improve the sites.
尽管互联网在日本已被广泛使用，但迄今为止，与心理健康相关问题的信息质量尚未得到评估。本研究的目的是调查日本处理心理健康、精神障碍及其相关事务的网站的现状。通过搜索引擎谷歌，识别出了37个专门包含心理健康或精神障碍信息的网站。然后检查了这些网站的特点，以及所提及的各种精神障碍，还有这37个网站中每个网站的内容质量。超过一半的网站至少部分是出于商业目的设立的，只有27%的网站为专业人士所有。情绪障碍、惊恐障碍和精神分裂症是网站上最常提及的三种疾病。除了一些例外情况，信息质量不足，尤其是关于治疗的信息。本研究中检查的大多数心理健康和精神障碍网站都有改进的空间。挑战在于建立一个评估网站的系统，并激励每个网站管理员改进网站。
