A.J. Pappanikou Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT, USA.
Res Dev Disabil. 2013 Oct;34(10):3077-83. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.06.013. Epub 2013 Jul 24.
The Internet is commonly used to seek health-related information, but little is known about the quality of websites on developmental disabilities. Therefore, we sought to evaluate the characteristics and quality of websites located by searching ten common terms related to developmental disabilities and explore relations between website characteristics and website quality in order to make recommendations on ways to ensure locating good online information. We located 208 unique websites in our November 2012 US searches of Google and Bing. Two independent coders evaluated 10 characteristics of the websites and two different coders assessed the quality of the websites. From the 208 websites, 104 (50%) provided relevant information about the disability being searched. Of these 104 websites, those found to be of highest quality were least likely to be a sponsored result, contain advertisements, be from a for-profit company, and did contain references to peer-reviewed publications or had a top-level domain of .gov or .org. Individuals with developmental disabilities and their family members who choose to obtain disability-related information online should remain vigilant to ensure that they locate high-quality and accurate information and should not replace information obtained from health-care professionals and educational specialists with information found online.
互联网通常被用于搜索与健康相关的信息，但对于发育障碍相关网站的质量，人们知之甚少。因此，我们试图通过搜索与发育障碍相关的十个常见术语来评估网站的特征和质量，并探讨网站特征与网站质量之间的关系，以便就如何确保找到优质在线信息提出建议。我们在 2012 年 11 月对谷歌和必应进行了美国搜索，找到了 208 个独特的网站。两名独立的编码员评估了网站的 10 个特征，两名不同的编码员评估了网站的质量。在这 208 个网站中，有 104 个（50%）提供了与正在搜索的残疾相关的信息。在这 104 个网站中，质量最高的网站最不可能是赞助结果，含有广告，来自营利性公司，并且确实包含对同行评议出版物的引用，或者顶级域为.gov 或.org。选择通过互联网获取残疾相关信息的发育障碍患者及其家属应保持警惕，以确保他们找到高质量和准确的信息，并且不应将从医疗保健专业人员和教育专家那里获得的信息与从互联网上找到的信息相替代。
