Rao Navya R, Mohapatra Manaswini, Mishra Swayamprabha, Joshi Ashish
Center for Public Health Informatics, Asian Institute of Public Health in Bhuabneswar, India.
Perspect Health Inf Manag. 2012;9(Summer):1c. Epub 2012 Apr 1.
The objective of this study was to examine the quality of dengue-related health information on the Internet. Three raters used the keyword dengue to search the Google, Yahoo!, and Bing search engines during August 2011. The first 20 websites from each search engine were examined for a total of 60 sites. Duplicate, nonfunctional, non-English, and nonoperational websites were excluded from the study, resulting in 36 sites for final analysis. The 16-item DISCERN tool was used to evaluate the quality of dengue-related health information on the Internet. Chi-square analysis and analysis of variance were performed to compare the DISCERN scores. Inter-rater reliability analysis showed significant differences in the level of agreement among the three raters. The 36 unique websites were categorized into .com, .edu, .gov, .org, and other sites. The .com sites had the lowest DISCERN scores. Educating consumers on how to find and recognize valid health information on the Internet may lead to better informed decision making.
本研究的目的是检验互联网上登革热相关健康信息的质量。2011年8月，三名评估人员使用关键词“登革热”搜索谷歌、雅虎和必应搜索引擎。对每个搜索引擎的前20个网站进行检查，共计60个网站。重复、无法使用、非英文和无法运行的网站被排除在研究之外，最终得到36个网站用于分析。使用16项DISCERN工具评估互联网上登革热相关健康信息的质量。进行卡方分析和方差分析以比较DISCERN分数。评估者间信度分析显示三名评估者之间的一致程度存在显著差异。这36个独特的网站被分类为.com、.edu、.gov、.org和其他网站。.com网站的DISCERN分数最低。指导消费者如何在互联网上查找和识别有效的健康信息可能会使他们做出更明智的决策。
