Del Giglio Adriana, Abdala Beatrice, Ogawa Carolina, Amado Daniel, Carter Diego, Gomieiro Fernanda, Salama Fernanda, Shiroma Marina, Del Giglio Auro
Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, Members of Students' Committee of ACP Brazil, Santo André, SP, Brazil.
Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992). 2012 Nov-Dec;58(6):645-9. doi: 10.1590/s0104-42302012000600007.
Patients and their relatives often look for information about their diseases on the internet. Diabetes mellitus (DM), systemic arterial hypertension (SAH), and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are the most prevalent in Brazil, thus, information on these pathologies is extremely searched for on the internet. For this reason, this study attempted to evaluate the quality of information available in Portuguese on the web regarding these disorders.
The first 20 websites in Portuguese for each disease through the Google® search algorithm were selected. The Discern Questionnaire (DQ) and Health on the Net (HON) were used as tools in order to evaluate the quality of information. To assess adequacy, international and Brazilian guidelines for different co-morbidities were used.
When evaluating the information content available, 45%, 95%, and 85% of pages had the definition of DM, SAH, and AMI, respectively. Only 25% of the websites regarding the three co-morbidities had specific information on diagnosis and treatment. Only 15%, 20%, and 10% of the websites had HON certification, respectively. Using the DQ approach, scores higher than 50% were obtained in 70% of the DM websites, in 65% of SAH websites, and in 55% of the AMI websites.
The available information in Portuguese on the internet regarding the three pathologies selected (DM, SAH, and AMI) is quite often inadequate and insufficient.
患者及其亲属经常在互联网上查找有关自身疾病的信息。糖尿病（DM）、系统性动脉高血压（SAH）和急性心肌梗死（AMI）在巴西最为常见，因此，互联网上对这些病症信息的搜索量极大。出于这个原因，本研究试图评估网络上葡萄牙语版本的有关这些病症的信息质量。
通过谷歌搜索算法，为每种疾病选取葡萄牙语版本的前20个网站。使用辨别问卷（DQ）和网络健康（HON）作为工具来评估信息质量。为评估充分性，采用了针对不同合并症的国际和巴西指南。
在评估现有信息内容时，分别有45%、95%和85%的页面包含DM、SAH和AMI的定义。关于这三种合并症的网站中，只有25%有关于诊断和治疗的具体信息。分别只有15%、20%和10%的网站具有HON认证。采用DQ方法，70%的DM网站、65%的SAH网站和55%的AMI网站得分高于50%。
互联网上葡萄牙语版本的有关所选三种病症（DM、SAH和AMI）的现有信息往往不够充分。
