ArticleJournal of health communication2018
Scientific Quality of Health-Related Articles in Specialty Cannabis and General Newspapers in San Francisco.
Article in Journal of health communication, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Quality of information in news media reports about the effects of health interventions: Systematic review and meta-analyses.F1000Research · 2021Pooled it
- In harm's way: Do college students' beliefs about cannabis put them at risk for use?Journal of American college health : J of ACH · 2024Article
- The quality of health information provided on web sites selling cannabis to consumers in Canada is poor.Harm reduction journal · 2022Article
- Online information on medical cannabis is not always aligned with scientific evidence and may raise unrealistic expectations.Journal of cannabis research · 2022Article
- Cannabis for pain: a cross-sectional survey of the patient information quality on the Internet.Journal of cannabis research · 2021Article
- Public Health and Medicine's Need to Respond to Cannabis Commercialization in the United States: A Commentary.Journal of psychoactive drugsArticle
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4 authors.
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Abstract
Recreational cannabis is being legalized in states across the USA. The public relies on popular media for health information about cannabis. We assessed the accuracy of reporting on health effects of cannabis use in GreenState, a specialty publication on cannabis published by the San Francisco Chronicle and the main newspaper using the Index of Scientific Quality for Health Related News Reports. Results were compared using t-tests. Seventeen GreenState articles and four San Francisco Chronicle articles were identified for analysis. Health articles in GreenState scored 2.9 (±1.1 [SD]) Global, with the highest scoring category Applicability (4.5 ± 0.4) and the lowest Precision (2.4 ± 1.0) on a scale of 1-5. In contrast, the San Francisco Chronicle articles received a Global rating of 4.6 (±0.2), ranging from Applicability (5.0 ± 0) to Benefits (3.8 ± 0.9). Articles in the San Francisco Chronicle scored significantly higher in all categories but Benefits which was not significantly different for the San Francisco Chronicle compared with GreenState (3.8 vs. 3.6, p = 0.77). The public, clinicians, and policymakers need to be aware of this pattern and treat information in publications like GreenState with an appropriate level of skepticism until the quality of reporting improves to general journalistic standards.
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