Patients’ use of the Internet for pain-related medical information

Boer, Maaike J. de; Versteegen, Gerbrig J.; Wijhe, Marten van

doi:10.1016/j.pec.2007.05.012

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“…The uncontrollable nature of the Internet cause healthcare professionals to be cautious about giving advice to their patients for further reading from online sources (11,26). One of the reasons for this might be the increase in websites belonging to private practices as was the case in our study as well.…”

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Information on the Internet Regarding Orthognathic Surgery in Turkey: Is It an Adequate Guide for Potential Patients?

Bavbek¹,

Tuncer²

2017

Turk J Orthod

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Objective: To evaluate the quality of information on websites regarding orthognathic surgery in Turkey using the DISCERN toolkit.Methods: An Internet search was performed using the Google search engine with the terms "orthognathic surgery", "jaw surgery", "jaw operation", "correcting jaw surgery", and "surgery orthodontics. " The first 25 websites obtained after searching for each term were evaluated. Duplicate websites, advertisements, discussion groups, links to research articles, videos, and images were not considered. The remaining websites were analyzed using the DISCERN toolkit. This toolkit is composed of 15 questions that were scored from 1 to 5. Results were calculated as mean scores, percentages, and ranges.Results: Among the 36 evaluated websites, 12 (33.3%) belonged to plastic surgeons, 11 (30.6%) belonged to orthodontists, 8 (22.2%) belonged to private dental clinics, 3 (8.3%) belonged to maxillofacial surgeons, 1 (2.8%) was a professional organization website, and 1 (2.8%) belonged to a private hospital. The Turkish Orthodontic Society had the only listed professional organization website. The mean total DISCERN score was 28/75 (range: 15-48). The overall quality of information in 44.4% of the websites was low. The main problems of websites were as follows: no mention of the aims, sources, and production time of information; no links for additional sources of information; and no information for patient carers. Conclusion:The quality of web-based information on orthognathic surgery was generally low. Higher quality information provided by public organizations that do not have profit concerns is required.

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Information on the Internet Regarding Orthognathic Surgery in Turkey: Is It an Adequate Guide for Potential Patients?

Bavbek¹,

Tuncer²

2017

Turk J Orthod

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“…In a Dutch study, 43% of the subjects interviewed also rated the quality of the information as good. 5 In this study, 43% of the subjects said that they did not access the internet because they considered the information provided by their physicians to be sufficient, and 5% considered the internet content to be incorrect. In a study conducted in England, 80% of the subjects preferred to receive their medical information directly from their physicians; only 19% searched for information on the internet.…”

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“…21 Similarly, in a study conducted in The Netherlands, the subjects generally preferred to have their medical information provided by their physicians, despite having access to the internet. 5 Subjects in a study conducted in Taiwan stated that they did not seek medical information on the internet due to lack of time, lack of skill in accessing it, motivation, or even dissatisfaction with the information, considering it to be unreliable. 23 In our study, however, a proportion of the subjects (57.9%) without access to the internet expressed a wish to obtain information about their disease via the internet.…”

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“…3 Patient interest in obtaining information about disease via the internet varies from 8 to 60% depending on the problem: breast cancer (43%), 4 chronic pain (39%), 5 cardiovascular disease (20%), 6 colorectal cancer (8%), 7 burns (12%), 8 infertility (58%), 9 and lung cancer (16%) 10 , as well as country and population. This is not a new research phenomenon, and although the results should not be different for patients with COPD, they cannot be generalized.…”

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Internet Use for Health-Care Information by Subjects With COPD

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BACKGROUND: Although the internet is an important tool for entertainment, work, learning, shopping, and communication, it is also a possible source for information on health and disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the proportion of subjects with COPD in São Paulo, Brazil, who use the internet to obtain information about their disease. METHODS: Subjects (N ‫؍‬ 382) with COPD answered a 17-question survey, including information regarding computer use, internet access, and searching for sites on COPD. Our sample was distributed according to the socioeconomic levels of the Brazilian population (low, 17.8%; medium, 66.5%; and high, 15.7%). RESULTS: Most of the subjects in the sample were male (62.6%), with a mean age of 67.0 ؎ 9.9 y. According to Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) stages, 74.3% of the subjects were in stage II or III. In addition, 51.6% of the subjects had a computer, 49.7% accessed the internet, and 13.9% used it to search for information about COPD. The internet was predominantly accessed by male (70.3%) and younger (64.6 ؎ 9.5 y of age) subjects compared with female (29.7%, P ‫؍‬ .04) and older (67.5 ؎ 9.6 y of age, P < .007) subjects. Searching for information about COPD on the internet was associated with having a computer (5.9-fold), Medical Research Council dyspnea level 1 (5.3-fold), and high social class (8.4-fold). The search for information on COPD was not influenced by GOLD staging. CONCLUSIONS: A low percentage of subjects with COPD in São Paulo use the internet as a tool to obtain information about their disease. This search is associated with having a computer, low dyspnea score, and high socioeconomic level.

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“…The amount of health related information that is available to the public has increased greatly over recent years (Diaz et al, 2002;Schwartz et al, 2006;De Boer, 2007;Iverson et al, 2008;Kommolage, 2009). …”

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Electronic health information and long-term conditions

Hewitt‐Taylor

Bond

2012

British Journal of Healthcare Management

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This article discusses the increasing availability of health-related information, and the impact that this can have for people with long-term conditions' expectations of healthcare providers. The article suggests a framework for decision making about the role that healthcare staff should play in the information searching, retrieval, and synthesis activities which people with long-term conditions engage in. The framework is based on a series of decisions related to: perceptions of ownership of long-term conditions; whether intermediatory or apomediatory approaches to information management are deemed to be most appropriate; and, as a result of these considerations, what, if any, place healthcare staff should take in the process of patients searching or and interpreting information about long-term health needs. These decisions will enable healthcare providers to plan services based on clear decision pathways, and to clarify to all concerned what are deemed to be reasonable expectations of health service provision.

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Patients’ use of the Internet for pain-related medical information

Cited by 125 publications

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Information on the Internet Regarding Orthognathic Surgery in Turkey: Is It an Adequate Guide for Potential Patients?

Information on the Internet Regarding Orthognathic Surgery in Turkey: Is It an Adequate Guide for Potential Patients?

Internet Use for Health-Care Information by Subjects With COPD

Electronic health information and long-term conditions

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