Moretti Felipe Azevedo, Oliveira Vanessa Elias de, Silva Edina Mariko Koga da
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Rev Assoc Med Bras (1992). 2012 Nov-Dec;58(6):650-8. doi: 10.1590/s0104-42302012000600008.
To progress in the understanding of the user profile and of search trends for health information on the internet.
Analyses were performed based on 1,828 individuals who completed an electronic questionnaire available on a very popular health website. At the same time, through the "elite survey" method, 20 specialists were interviewed, aiming at assessing quality control strategies regarding health information disseminated online.
A predominance of female users who research information for themselves (= 90%), who consider the internet one of their main sources of health information (86%), and who spend from 5 to 35 hours online every week (62%) was verified. High reliability is assigned to information from specialists (76%), and low reliability to television, radio, or blogs (14%).
It can be concluded that the internet is proving to be a major source of health information for the population, and that website certification is a strategy to be contemplated to improve the quality of information and to promote public health.
增进对互联网健康信息用户特征和搜索趋势的了解。
基于1828名在一个非常受欢迎的健康网站上完成电子问卷的个体进行分析。同时，通过“精英调查”方法，采访了20名专家，旨在评估在线传播的健康信息的质量控制策略。
证实主要是女性用户为自己查找信息（90%），她们将互联网视为健康信息的主要来源之一（86%），并且每周上网5至35小时（62%）。人们对专家提供的信息给予高度可靠性（76%），而对电视、广播或博客提供的信息给予低可靠性（14%）。
可以得出结论，互联网正成为民众健康信息的主要来源，网站认证是一种可考虑的策略，以提高信息质量并促进公共卫生。
