Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain.
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2010 Jan 29;10:6. doi: 10.1186/1472-6947-10-6.
The Internet is a fundamental part of the daily life of adolescents, they consider it as a safe and confidential source of information on health matters. The aims is to describe the experience of Spanish adolescents searching for health information on the Internet.
A cross-sectional study of 811 school-age adolescents in Granada was carried out. An adapted and piloted questionnaire was used which was controlled by trained personnel. Sociodemographic and health variables were included together with those concerning the conditions governing access to and use of information and communication technologies (ICT).
811 adolescents were surveyed (99.38% response rate), mean age was 17 years old. Of these, 88% used the Internet; 57.5% used it on a daily or weekly basis and 38.7% used it occasionally. Nearly half the sample group (55.7%) stated that they used the Internet to search for health-related information. The main problems reported in the search for e-health were the ignorance of good web pages (54.8%) and the lack of confidence or search skills (23.2%).
In conclusion, it seems plausible to claim that websites designed and managed by health services should have a predominant position among interventions specifically addressed to young people.
互联网是青少年日常生活的重要组成部分，他们认为互联网是获取健康信息的安全且保密的资源。本研究旨在描述西班牙青少年在互联网上搜索健康信息的体验。
在格拉纳达对 811 名学龄青少年进行了横断面研究。使用了经过改编和试点测试的问卷，并由经过培训的人员进行了控制。调查了包括社会人口学和健康变量以及访问和使用信息和通信技术（ICT）的条件等变量。
共调查了 811 名青少年（应答率为 99.38%），平均年龄为 17 岁。其中，88%的人使用互联网；57.5%的人每天或每周使用互联网，38.7%的人偶尔使用互联网。近一半的样本组（55.7%）表示他们使用互联网搜索与健康相关的信息。在搜索电子健康信息时，报告的主要问题是不知道良好的网页（54.8%）和缺乏信心或搜索技能（23.2%）。
总之，似乎可以合理地声称，由卫生服务设计和管理的网站应该在专门针对年轻人的干预措施中占据主导地位。
