Nursing, Physiotherapy, and Medicine Department, University of Almería, Almería 04120, Spain.
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit, Torrecárdenas Hospital, Almería 04009, Spain.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2021 Nov;212:106462. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2021.106462. Epub 2021 Oct 16.
Parents use the Internet to take decisions about their children's health, but few resources have focused on eHealth technology evaluations from their point of view.
The main aim of this research was to evaluate a Spanish eHealth pediatric website for parents.
A previously validated web questionnaire was used to evaluate five domains: usability, utility, trust and confidence, well-child section and accessibility of the website. Univariate, bivariate and multiple linear regression analyses were performed.
516 users participated in the research and rated the website as usable, useful, trustworthy and accessible. Higher scores were given by the participants who relied most on the Internet for taking decisions about health; by the participants who used a smartphone to access the pediatric website; by the participants who knew the website the longest; and by the participants who had accessed it more times. No differences in the evaluations of the website were found regarding age, education level or household income of the participants.
eHealth pediatric websites, written by a pediatrician in an easy to understand language, can be perceived as usable, trustworthy, useful and accessible by their users and consequently help them with their decisions making. Some characteristics of the users are associated with a better perception of these websites.
家长们会利用互联网来为孩子的健康问题做出决策，但鲜少有资源从家长的视角出发，关注电子健康技术的评估。
本研究旨在评估一个西班牙语的儿科电子健康网站，供家长使用。
采用预先验证的网络问卷评估该网站的五个方面：可用性、实用性、信任和信心、儿童健康部分以及网站的可访问性。进行了单变量、双变量和多元线性回归分析。
516 名用户参与了这项研究，他们对该网站的评价为可用、有用、值得信赖和可访问。对健康决策最依赖互联网的参与者、使用智能手机访问儿科网站的参与者、了解该网站时间最长的参与者以及访问次数最多的参与者，对网站的评价更高。参与者的年龄、教育水平或家庭收入与他们对网站的评价没有差异。
由儿科医生用通俗易懂的语言编写的儿科电子健康网站，可以被用户感知为可用、值得信赖、有用和可访问，从而帮助他们做出决策。用户的某些特征与他们对这些网站的更好感知有关。
