提供阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停信息的互联网资源的准确性和可靠性。
Accuracy and Reliability of Internet Resources Providing Information on Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
机构信息
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul St Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Incheon St Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Incheon, Republic of Korea.
出版信息
J Clin Sleep Med. 2018 Oct 15;14(10):1717-1723. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.7380.
STUDY OBJECTIVES
To evaluate the readability, content, and quality of internet information about obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
METHODS
Three major search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Bing) were used to retrieve the first 200 hits for the term "sleep apnea." The website contents were assessed using established guidelines, while the website quality was evaluated using the validated DISCERN instrument and benchmarks.
RESULTS
In total, 243 websites met the inclusion criteria for this study. The websites were divided into five categories: scientific resource, foundation, news/ media report, commercial website, and personal commentary. The mean Flesch-Kincaid grade level, which indicated the readability of the websites, was 7.5. The quality of most websites was poor, with news/media reports and commercial websites exhibiting poorer quality than the others. The Health On the Net (HON) code, which certifies the reliability and credibility of online content regarding human health, was applied only to 14.3% websites; the reliability of all these websites was poor. The content score for the diagnosis and management of OSA was lower for news/media reports and commercial websites than for scientific resources. News/media reports exhibited the worst content scores.
CONCLUSIONS
Our findings suggest that most online health resources regarding OSA are not reliable and are inaccurate. Health care providers should be aware of the high variability in online information concerning OSA.
COMMENTARY
A commentary on this article appears in this issue on page 1643.
研究目的
评估关于阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停（OSA）的互联网信息的可读性、内容和质量。
方法
使用三个主要搜索引擎（Google、Yahoo 和 Bing）检索“睡眠呼吸暂停”一词的前 200 个搜索结果。使用既定指南评估网站内容，同时使用经过验证的 DISCERN 工具和基准评估网站质量。
结果
共有 243 个网站符合本研究的纳入标准。这些网站分为五类：科学资源、基金会、新闻/媒体报道、商业网站和个人评论。表明网站可读性的 Flesch-Kincaid 等级平均值为 7.5。大多数网站的质量较差，新闻/媒体报道和商业网站的质量比其他网站差。只有 14.3%的网站应用了认证人类健康在线内容可靠性和可信度的 Health On the Net (HON) 准则；这些网站的可靠性均较差。关于 OSA 的诊断和管理的内容评分，新闻/媒体报道和商业网站的评分低于科学资源。新闻/媒体报道的内容评分最差。
结论
我们的研究结果表明，大多数关于 OSA 的在线健康资源不可靠且不准确。医疗保健提供者应意识到有关 OSA 的在线信息存在高度差异。
评论
本文的一篇评论出现在本期第 1643 页。
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