Evaluation of Health on the Net seal label and DISCERN as content quality indicators for patients seeking information about thumb sucking habit

Kiran, Shital; Bargale, Seema; Pandya, Parth; Bhatt, Kuntal; Barad, Nirav; Shah, Nilay; Venkataraghavan, Karthik; Ramesh, Keshamoni

doi:10.4103/0975-7406.163509

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“…Due to the importance of internet health searches nowadays for health personnel and nonhealth personnel, scoring systems or quality evaluation tools have been developed as a set of indicators applied to a website to provide a quality score. The most used scoring systems nowadays are the Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmarks, and the DISCERN instrument [5][6][7]. Eysenbach et al [8], reported that 70% of websites presenting care information had significant quality issues.…”

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Misinformation of COVID-19 on the Internet: Infodemiology Study

Cuan-Baltazar¹,

Muñoz‐Pérez²,

Robledo-Vega³

et al. 2020

JMIR Public Health Surveill

510

397

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Background The internet has become an important source of health information for users worldwide. The novel coronavirus caused a pandemic search for information with broad dissemination of false or misleading health information. Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the quality and readability of online information about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was a trending topic on the internet, using validated instruments and relating the quality of information to its readability. Methods The search was based on the term “Wuhan Coronavirus” on the Google website (February 6, 2020). At the search time, the terms “COVID-19” or “SARS-CoV-2” (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) did not exist. Critical analysis was performed on the first 110 hits using the Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark, the DISCERN instrument, and Google ranking. Results The first 110 websites were critically analyzed, and only 1.8% (n=2) of the websites had the HONcode seal. The JAMA benchmark showed that 39.1% (n=43) of the websites did not have any of the categories required by this tool, and only 10.0% (11/110) of the websites had the four quality criteria required by JAMA. The DISCERN score showed that 70.0% (n=77) of the websites were evaluated as having a low score and none were rated as having a high score. Conclusions Nonhealth personnel and the scientific community need to be aware about the quality of the information they read and produce, respectively. The Wuhan coronavirus health crisis misinformation was produced by the media, and the misinformation was obtained by users from the internet. The use of the internet has a risk to public health, and, in cases like this, the governments should be developing strategies to regulate health information on the internet without censuring the population. By February 6, 2020, no quality information was available on the internet about COVID-19.

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Misinformation of COVID-19 on the Internet: Infodemiology Study

Cuan-Baltazar¹,

Muñoz‐Pérez²,

Robledo-Vega³

et al. 2020

JMIR Public Health Surveill

510

397

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“…For this reason, the DISCERN toolkit was used to evaluate the quality of information on websites as reported in the previous studies. 13,22,23 According to the results of the DISCERN analysis of the present study, the information on websites regarding treatments of traumatic dental injuries was limited and deficient in terms of reliability and quality. Our findings were in accordance with the previous studies.…”

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confidence: 83%

Evaluation of Quality and Readability of Online Information on Treatments of Traumatic Dental Injuries

ATEŞÇİ¹,

KILINÇ

2022

Selcuk Dental Journal

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Travmatik diş yaralanmaları tüm dünyada yaygın bir halk sağlığı sorunudur. Bu çalışmanın amacı travmatik diş yaralanmalarının tedavisine ilişkin web tabanlı bilgilerin kalitesini ve okunabilirliğini araştırmaktır. Gereç ve Yöntemler:Travmatik diş yaralanmalarının tedavileriyle ilgili dört farklı anahtar kelime (''kırık dişlerin tedavisi'', ''diş travmalarının tedavisi'', ''çocuklarda ön diş kırıklarının tedavisi'', ''kırık diş tedavileri'') ile Google arama motoru kullanılarak bir internet araştırması gerçekleştirildi. Tekrarlanan web siteleri, araştırma çalışmalarına ait bağlantı linkleri, reklamlar, tartışma grupları, videolar ve resimler değerlendirme dışı bırakıldı. Web sitelerindeki travmatik diş yaralanmalarının tedavisine ilişkin yazılı bilgilerin kalitesi DISCERN ile analiz edildi. Yazılı bilgilerin okunabilirliği Flesch-Kincaid sınıf seviyesi (FKGL), Flesch-Kincaid Okuma Kolaylığı (FKRE) ve Simple Measure of Gobbledygook okuma notu seviyesi (SMOG) indeksleri ile değerlendirildi.Bulgular: Toplam 120 web sayfası belirlendi, ancak hariç tutma kriterlerinden sonra bunlardan geriye sadece 42 tanesi kaldı. Bu sitelerden 25'i (% 59,5) özel diş kliniklerine, 9'u (% 21,4) sağlık ve diş hekimliği bilgilendirme sayfalarına, 8'i (% 19,1) meslek kuruluşlarının internet sitelerine aitti. Ortalama DISCERN puanı 42.4 olmakla birlikte, 24 ile 62 arasında değişiyordu. Ortalama FKRE 50.7 ± 14 idi, bu da 10. sınıftan 12. sınıfa kadar okuma seviyesine denk düşmektedir. Tüm web siteleri için ortalama FKGL puanı 8.5 ± 2.8 ve ortalama SMOG puanı 7.3 ± 2.0 idi. Sonuç: Bu çalışmanın sonuçları, incelenen web sitelerindeki bilgilerin kalitesinin DISCERN'e göre adil olduğunu ve genel popülasyon için okunması ve yorumlanmasının çok zor olduğunu göstermiştir. Sağlık hizmetlerine dair bilgi sağlayanlar, travmatik diş yaralanmalarının tedavisi ile ilgili bilgilerin kalitesini ve okunabilirliğini iyileştirmeye odaklanmalıdır.

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“…It is important to guide patients and guide people on dental treatment possibilities. It was stated that dentists could provide patients with appropriate information by referring patients to approved websites, for example on the thumb sucking habit ( 18 ). When the latter was evaluated the reliability of websites on the thumb sucking habit by the DISCERN tool, the highest points obtained from 36 websites was 55 out of 80, and the lowest points was 16 out of 80.…”

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confidence: 99%

Quality and reliability of web-based information regarding restorative treatment in pediatric patients

Kuter¹,

Eden²

2021

eor

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The aim of the present study is to assess the quality and reliability of web-based information about restorative treatment in pediatric patients on the internet using different scales. Materials and MethodsWebsites obtained by using keywords about restorative treatment in pediatric patients on Google and Yandex were included in the study. The study was conducted in English on a total of 440 websites. Websites were evaluated using the quality criteria for consumer health information (DISCERN toolkit), Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmarks, and Health on the Net Code of Conduct Certification (HONCode). ResultsThe mean DISCERN points of the websites were moderate. Among the evaluated websites, the quality of the knowledge in 20% of the websites was low. The rate of websites with a score below 40 was 37.5%. None of them has reached an excellent score. No websites met all JAMA criteria. There was no HONCode Certificate on any website. ConclusionThis study showed that the quality of the web-based information about restorative treatment in pediatric patients was generally inadequate and scientifically imperfect.

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Evaluation of Health on the Net seal label and DISCERN as content quality indicators for patients seeking information about thumb sucking habit

Cited by 16 publications

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Misinformation of COVID-19 on the Internet: Infodemiology Study

Misinformation of COVID-19 on the Internet: Infodemiology Study

Evaluation of Quality and Readability of Online Information on Treatments of Traumatic Dental Injuries

Quality and reliability of web-based information regarding restorative treatment in pediatric patients

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