Dash Nishitha R, Pipal Kumkum, Kaza Santhosh K, Panigrahi Pinaki, Joshi Ashish
Asian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India.
Technol Health Care. 2012;20(2):117-25. doi: 10.3233/THC-2011-0658.
Technological development has made the health information easily accessible to the general community through the internet. The number of health information seekers is increasing gradually and there is sufficient evidence indicating its usefulness in informed decision making. The objective of the study is to evaluate the quality of malnutrition related information on the internet by using different search engines.
The three search engines: Google, MSN/Bing, and Yahoo were used to search malnutrition related information. The general assessment tool and content assessment tool were adopted to evaluate the quality of the included websites from different groups such as .org, .com, .gov, and others. The analysis was performed by using SPSS 17.0.
Of all 29 sites, the .gov group showed the highest score for general assessment (mean=317; SD=14.68) and content assessment (mean=51.5; SD=18.26). The .org group got the lowest scores for both the tools. Reliability was 57% among rater1 and rater2 for the general assessment tool while it was 51% between rater2 and rater3 for content assessment.
The study produced a quality assessment of websites containing malnutrition information. Sites provided more information on etiology, clinical information, and available treatment option for malnutrition. Assessment tools that were used in the study were good, extensive in assessing both surface and content quality.
技术发展使健康信息通过互联网易于被普通大众获取。寻求健康信息的人数在逐渐增加，并且有充分证据表明其在明智决策方面的有用性。本研究的目的是通过使用不同搜索引擎评估互联网上与营养不良相关信息的质量。
使用谷歌、MSN/必应和雅虎这三个搜索引擎搜索与营养不良相关的信息。采用一般评估工具和内容评估工具来评估来自.org、.com、.gov等不同组别的纳入网站的质量。使用SPSS 17.0进行分析。
在所有29个网站中，.gov组在一般评估（均值=317；标准差=14.68）和内容评估（均值=51.5；标准差=18.26）方面得分最高。.org组在这两个工具上得分最低。一般评估工具中评分者1和评分者2之间的可靠性为57%，而内容评估中评分者2和评分者3之间的可靠性为51%。
该研究对包含营养不良信息的网站进行了质量评估。网站提供了更多关于营养不良病因、临床信息和可用治疗选择的信息。研究中使用的评估工具很好，在评估表面质量和内容质量方面都很全面。
