How Users' Gaze Behavior Is Related to Their Quality Evaluation of a Health Website Based on HONcode Principles?

Qin, Qin; Ke, Qing; Du, Jia Tina; Xie, Ying

doi:10.2478/dim-2020-0045

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“…‘Authority’ is one of the principles of the HON code, which indicates that the information provided on the websites by an expert in health science must be clearly referenced, and if health professionals have not prepared any material, its source should be mentioned (Qin et al, 2021 ). This factor can ensure visitors from the accuracy of the content, which was estimated to be 66.6% in our study, showing that the evaluated websites in terms of content were trustworthy.…”

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An evaluation of the quality of COVID‐19 websites in terms of HON principles and using DISCERN tool

Safdari

Gholamzadeh

Saeedi

et al. 2022

Health Info Libraries J

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Background As many people relied on information from the Internet for official scientific or academically affiliated information during the COVID‐19 pandemic, the quality of information on those websites should be good. Objective The main purpose of this study was to evaluate a selection of COVID‐19‐related websites for the quality of health information provided. Method Using Google and Yahoo, 36 English language websites were selected, in accordance with the inclusion criteria. The two tools were selected for evaluation were the Health on the Net (HON) Code and the 16‐item DISCERN tool. Results Most websites (39%) were related to information for the public, and a small number of them (3%) concerned screening websites in which people could be informed of their possible condition by entering their symptoms. The result of the evaluation by the HON tool showed that most websites were reliable (53%), and 44% of them were very reliable. Based on the assessment results of the Likert‐based 16‐item DISCERN tool, the maximum and minimum values for the average scores of each website were calculated as 2.44 and 4.25, respectively. Conclusion Evaluation using two widely accepted tools shows that most websites related to COVID‐19 are reliable and useful for physicians, researchers and the public.

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An evaluation of the quality of COVID‐19 websites in terms of HON principles and using DISCERN tool

Safdari

Gholamzadeh

Saeedi

et al. 2022

Health Info Libraries J

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“…During the infodemic, patients are likely to be influenced by the risk situation and emotion [ 47 , 48 ], which further biases their rational thinking process and affects their quality judgement. Therefore, they may not naturally rely on the criteria they consider important [ 49 ], which contributes to the inconsistency.…”

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How users make judgements about the quality of online health information: a cross-sectional survey study

Pian

Lin

et al. 2022

BMC Public Health

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Background People increasingly use the Internet to seek health information. However, the overall quality of online health information remains low. This situation is exacerbated by the unprecedented “infodemic”, which has had negative consequences for patients. Therefore, it is important to understand how users make judgements about health information by applying different judgement criteria. Objective The objective of this study is to determine how patients apply different criteria in their judgement of the quality of online health information during the pandemic. In particular, we investigate whether there is consistency between the likelihood of using a particular judgement criterion and its perceived importance among different groups of users. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted in one of the leading hospitals in a coastal province of China with a population of forty million. Combined-strategy sampling was used to balance the randomness and the practicality of the recruiting process. A total of 1063 patients were recruited for this study. Chi-square and Kruskal–Wallis analyses were used to analyse the survey data. Results In general, patients make quality judgement of health information more frequently based on whether it is familiar, aesthetic, and with expertise. In comparison, they put more weights on whether health information is secure, trustworthy, and with expertise when determining its quality. Criteria that were considered more important were not always those with a higher likelihood of being used. Patients may not use particular criteria, such as familiarity, identification, and readability, more frequently than others even if they consider them to be more important than other do and vice versa. Surprisingly, patients with a primary school degree put more weight on whether health information is comprehensive than those with higher degrees do in determining its quality. However, they are less likely to use this guideline in practice. Conclusions To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to investigate the consistency between the likelihood of using certain quality judgement criteria and their perceived importance among patients grouped by different demographic variables and eHealth literacy levels. The findings highlight how to improve online health information services and provide fine-grained customization of information for users.

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“…On a note of caution, this great expansion of websites for parents does not guarantee their ethical and content quality, leaving parents with the responsibility of ascertaining which are trustworthy. High-quality ethical websites have been found to have more appropriate content, value gender equality, present a positive parental role, model a variety of parenting practices, provide educational content with multimedia formats, and make use of experiential, academic, and technical information (Qin et al, 2021;Suárez, Byrne & Rodrigo, 2018a).…”

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Evaluation of the “Positive Parent”, a Spanish web-based program to promote positive parenting in a Personal Learning Environment

Perdomo

Byrne

Rodrigo

2022

EJREP

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Introduction. The increasing use of online parenting resources offers the opportunity to improve the parenting role through Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). However, there is no evidence concerning the effectiveness of the learning process that takes place in a PLE space. Method. We evaluated the “Positive Parent” program through the self-assignment of: (a) 143 Spanish-speaking parents to the program modules, following a fixed learning itinerary based on the experiential methodology (Program Group), and (b) 139 parents to complementary multimedia material, following a self-guided, flexible learning itinerary (Visitor Group). For the first goal, both groups were automatically monitored for their pre-posttest completion of the Positive Parenting Scale, resulting in significant improvements in Family involvement, Affection and recognition for the child, Family communication and stress management, and Shared activities in the Program Group only. For the second goal, the Program Group was automatically monitored for Connection time, Connection duration, and Program duration, as well as level of engagement in Forum participation, Diary use, and Making a commitment. Results. Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was used to identify patterns of pre-post changes in positive parenting, showing moderate to high improvements in three out of four profiles, that is, for 87.4% of the parents. There was a significant relation between the participants’ decisions in the PLE space and profile membership, with higher engagement in forums, diary use, and making a commitment linked with greater improvements in positive parenting. Discussion and Conclusion. Given the use of spontaneous enrolment and self-assignment of participants to the program and visitor conditions, we cannot rule out the possibility that individual differences in unknown factors (i.e., motivation) may have affected the results for program effectiveness. However, we provide evidence that the significant improvements in all dimensions of positive parenting were limited to the Program Group, as indicated by the significant group x time interactions, despite the Visitor Group’s exposure to equivalent multimedia materials. For the first time, this evaluation reveals some of the relevant implementation conditions related to the effectiveness of PLEs in non-academic settings. The Positive Parent program provides Spanish-speaking parents with an innovative and successful learning experience to enhance positive parenting that may ultimately promote positive child development and family wellbeing.

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How Users' Gaze Behavior Is Related to Their Quality Evaluation of a Health Website Based on HONcode Principles?

Cited by 4 publications

References 64 publications

An evaluation of the quality of COVID‐19 websites in terms of HON principles and using DISCERN tool

An evaluation of the quality of COVID‐19 websites in terms of HON principles and using DISCERN tool

How users make judgements about the quality of online health information: a cross-sectional survey study

Evaluation of the “Positive Parent”, a Spanish web-based program to promote positive parenting in a Personal Learning Environment

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