ArticleAdvances in preventive medicine2016
Evaluation of Quality and Readability of Health Information Websites Identified through India's Major Search Engines.
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- Readability of Information on Smartphone Apps for Total Hip Replacement and Total Knee Replacement Surgery Patients.Journal of patient experience · 2020Article
- Quality and readability of English-language Internet information for vestibular disorders.Journal of vestibular research : equilibrium & orientation · 2020Article
- Evaluating hospital websites in Kuwait to improve consumer engagement and access to health information: a cross-sectional analytical study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2018Article
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- Comparative assessment of the information available on the treatment of depression over websites in English and Hindi language.Industrial psychiatry journalArticle
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Abstract
Background. The available health information on websites should be reliable and accurate in order to make informed decisions by community. This study was done to assess the quality and readability of health information websites on World Wide Web in India. Methods. This cross-sectional study was carried out in June 2014. The key words "Health" and "Information" were used on search engines "Google" and "Yahoo." Out of 50 websites (25 from each search engines), after exclusion, 32 websites were evaluated. LIDA tool was used to assess the quality whereas the readability was assessed using Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES), Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), and SMOG. Results. Forty percent of websites (n = 13) were sponsored by government. Health On the Net Code of Conduct (HONcode) certification was present on 50% (n = 16) of websites. The mean LIDA score (74.31) was average. Only 3 websites scored high on LIDA score. Only five had readability scores at recommended sixth-grade level. Conclusion. Most health information websites had average quality especially in terms of usability and reliability and were written at high readability levels. Efforts are needed to develop the health information websites which can help general population in informed decision making.
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