Dini Guglielmo, Bragazzi Nicola Luigi, D'Amico Beatrice, Montecucco Alfredo, Igwe Stanley C, Brigo Francesco, Toletone Alessandra, Durando Paolo
Department of Health Sciences, Postgraduate School in Occupational Medicine, University of Genoa, Italy.
Med Lav. 2017 Jun 28;108(3):167-173. doi: 10.23749/mdl.v108i3.6083.
Silicosis represents a "classical" occupational disease characterized by a renewed interest. New risk factors are emerging, such as sandblasting in the jeans industry or hydrofracking, leading to clusters of acute or massive cases.
Given that the Internet could represent a worker education and empowerment tool, and considering the increase in popularity of silicosis-related information, we aimed at systematically analyzing the reliability and readability of online silicosis-relevant information.
The search term "silicosi" was used to query 5 top search engines. The first 3 pages of results were screened using two validated readability tools: namely, the Gulpease and the ReadIt DyLanLab grade level scores.
Seventy sites were analyzed. The Gulpease score differed among the types of websites: academic websites differed from institutional websites, as well as encyclopedia/dictionary pages from institutional sites. The Lexical Model - ReadIt DyLanLab grade level differed among the types of websites. Encyclopedia/dictionary pages differed from academic, commercial, health-related, institutional and news sites. Approximately, half of the websites were intended/designed for workers. Only the Global Model - Read-It DyLanLab grade level differed according to the intended/designed target. Only 1.4% of websites adhered to Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct.
Our findings may have important practical implications for occupational physicians and health agencies/authorities. They should make efforts in strengthening their online presence, and producing appropriate material. This could lead to positive outcomes in term of occupational health promotion, potentially enabling workers to increase and to improve their work-related health and its determinants.
矽肺病是一种具有新关注度的“典型”职业病。新的风险因素不断出现，如牛仔裤行业的喷砂作业或水力压裂，导致急性或大量病例的聚集。
鉴于互联网可以成为工人教育和赋权的工具，并且考虑到与矽肺病相关信息的关注度不断提高，我们旨在系统分析在线矽肺病相关信息的可靠性和可读性。
使用搜索词“silicosi”查询5个顶级搜索引擎。使用两种经过验证的可读性工具筛选结果的前3页：即Gulpease和ReadIt DyLanLab年级水平得分。
分析了70个网站。Gulpease得分在网站类型之间存在差异：学术网站与机构网站不同，百科全书/词典页面与机构网站也不同。词汇模型 - ReadIt DyLanLab年级水平在网站类型之间存在差异。百科全书/词典页面与学术、商业、健康相关、机构和新闻网站不同。大约一半的网站是为工人设计的。只有全球模型 - Read-It DyLanLab年级水平根据预期/设计的目标而有所不同。只有1.4%的网站遵守了网络健康基金会行为准则。
我们的研究结果可能对职业医生和卫生机构/当局具有重要的实际意义。他们应努力加强在线形象，并制作合适的材料。这可能会在职业健康促进方面产生积极成果，有可能使工人增强并改善与工作相关的健康及其决定因素。
