Aggelidou Maria, Deftereos Savas P, Cassimos Dimitrios C, Skarentzos Konstantinos, Oikonomou Panagoula, Angelidou Artemis, Nikolaou Christina, Koufopoulos George, Kambouri Katerina
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Democritus University of Thrace, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupolis 68100, Greece.
Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Alexandroupolis, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis 68100, Greece.
World J Clin Pediatr. 2021 Sep 9;10(5):93-105. doi: 10.5409/wjcp.v10.i5.93.
The internet is a valuable tool for access to health-related information. There is limited literature regarding its use by parents of children with surgical conditions.
To investigate internet usage by parents seeking information about the surgical conditions of their offspring in relation to epidemiological factors such as family residential area and parental educational level and to subsequently review the literature regarding this topic.
An anonymous questionnaire about internet usage was completed by eligible parents of children who were admitted to our clinic for minor surgical procedures during a six-month period.
Our results demonstrated that the internet has been mostly used by mothers for children's health information. Google was the most commonly used search engine, while pediatricians were the first parental choice for 'live' information. Only one-quarter of the parents informed their doctor about the information found online. Nine of ten parents had a positive opinion of an official website managed by the doctors of our clinic. Our results mostly agreed with the international literature.
In conclusion, the establishment of official websites (designed and managed by specialists) that parents can access to receive appropriate health information is mandatory in the internet era.
互联网是获取健康相关信息的宝贵工具。关于患有外科疾病儿童的家长使用互联网的文献有限。
调查为了解其子女外科疾病信息而上网的家长的互联网使用情况，以及与诸如家庭居住地区和父母教育水平等流行病学因素的关系，并随后回顾关于该主题的文献。
符合条件的儿童家长在六个月内完成了一份关于互联网使用情况的匿名问卷，这些儿童因小手术入院到我们诊所。
我们的结果表明，母亲大多使用互联网获取儿童健康信息。谷歌是最常用的搜索引擎，而儿科医生是获取“实时”信息时家长的首选。只有四分之一的家长告知医生他们在网上找到的信息。十分之九的家长对我们诊所医生管理的官方网站持积极看法。我们的结果大多与国际文献一致。
总之，在互联网时代，建立家长可以访问以获取适当健康信息的官方网站（由专家设计和管理）是必不可少的。
