Quality of information sources about mental disorders: a comparison of Wikipedia with centrally controlled web and printed sources

Reavley, Nicola; Mackinnon, Andrew; Morgan, Amy J.; Álvarez‐Jiménez, Mario; Hetrick, Sarah; Killackey, Eóin; Nelson, Barnaby; Purcell, Rosemary; Yap, Marie Bee Hui; Jorm, Anthony F

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“…The participatory model, having majority health specialists [45] but also laypeople of varying editorial skills contributing to the health-related content [46], generates high-quality information. Wikipedia was recommended as an appropriate source of information [22,47].…”

Section: Medical Informationmentioning

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Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

2017

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Abstract:The evolution of Internet from static Web "publishing" to the highly participative, and data-driven, innovations of Web 2.0 has been influencing how people search for health-related information. This review included studies indexed in the PubMed electronic database that focused on social media analysis, examining relationships between participants (patients and healthcare consumers) through social media usage. The obtained results showed that previous research regarding social media's impact on patients and healthcare consumers aimed at a combination of platforms, but there is a penury of information about niche topics or its usage for retrieving medical information. Nevertheless, social media proved to be to be a promising tool in research mainly for recruitment purposes. The review has outlined that eHealth literacy is an attribute for populations that are female and relatively young and educated. Blogs share personal experiences, YouTube contains unregulated, high-and low-quality information that can mislead individuals, Facebook contains more marketing than health-related information, while Wikipedia is recommended for providing high-quality information. Despite healthcare practitioners' and healthcare public institutions' reluctance about the use of social media, this review demonstrates the usefulness of social media for patients and healthcare consumers in retrieving health-related information based on content availability and usage implications, and highlights gaps in knowledge that further research needs to fill.

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Section: Medical Informationmentioning

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Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

2017

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“…Reportedly, online resources are more up-to-date than textbooks. [14] An app can simplify the access to relevant state of the art information. [15] These benefits are reflected in the presence of apps for topics that require detailed information, such as disease diagnosis and management or drug references, which have been found to be commonly used among students in Germany and the UK.…”

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Medical students’ attitudes and wishes towards extending an educational general practice app to be suitable for practice: A cross-sectional survey from Leipzig, Germany

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European Journal of General Practice

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Fourth year medical students from Leipzig, Germany, were interested in using a general practice app during and after medical education. The responding students anticipated using a future general practice app mainly for collaboration, access to knowledge and diagnostic purposes when working as physicians. ABSTRACTBackground: In medical education and practice, smartphone apps are increasingly becoming popular. In general practice, apps could play an important future role in supporting medical education and practice. Objectives: To explore medical students' perceptions regarding the potential of a general practice app for training and subsequent work as a physician. Methods: Cross-sectional survey among Leipzig fourth-year medical students who were provided with an app prototype for a mandatory general practice course. Results: Response rate was 99.3% (n ¼ 305/307); 59.0% were female and mean age was 24.5 years. Students certified that the app had a higher potential than textbooks in both education (57.4% vs. 18.0%) and practice (47.1% vs. 22.8%). Students' most desired possible app extensions when anticipating its use for subsequent work as a physician were looking up information for diagnostics, therapy and prediction (85.1%), access to electronic patient files (48.1%), communication and networking (44.3%), organization of medical training (42.9%) and online monitoring of patients (38.1%). Students experienced with medical smartphone apps were more interested in app extensions. Consideration to use the app to support the opening of their own practice was significantly associated with higher interest in accessing electronic patient files, networking with colleagues and telemedicine. Conclusion: Fourth year medical students from Leipzig see a high potential in smartphone apps for education and practice and are interested in further using the technology after undergraduate education.

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“…A peer-reviewed 2012 study published in Psychological Medicine found that -the quality of information on depression and schizophrenia on Wikipedia is generally as good as, or better than, that provided by centrally controlled websites, Encyclopaedia Britannica and a psychiatry textbook‖ [23]. A peer-reviewed 2013 study published in Seminars in Dialysis found that -Wikipedia is a comprehensive and fairly reliable medical resource for nephrology patients that is written at a college reading level‖ [24].…”

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Wikipedia and the Humanities in Higher Education: Past Time to Renegotiate the Relationship

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2017

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Abstract-Since Wikipedia's founding in 2001, higher education has found it controversial as a teaching and learning resource. Many faculty members still ban students from using Wikipedia for their coursework. But a noticeable disparity exists between how academics in STEM (science, technology, engineering, & mathematics) and those in the humanities understand and engage Wikipedia as a teaching and learning resource. Wikipedia, as the scholarly research shows, is a far more credible source than generally acknowledged; and as many educators in STEM, and particularly the natural sciences, have also shown, Wikipedia can be a vital part of the undergraduate and graduate curricula. This study reviews the scholarship on Wikipedia; examines how Wikipedia can have a vital role in humanities education, including that of preparing students to write better and to do scholarly research; and argues why Wikipedia should be part of the humanities curricula globally.

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Quality of information sources about mental disorders: a comparison of Wikipedia with centrally controlled web and printed sources

Abstract: The quality of information on depression and schizophrenia on Wikipedia is generally as good as, or better than, that provided by centrally controlled websites, Encyclopaedia Britannica and a psychiatry textbook.

Cited by 111 publications

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Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

Social Media Usage for Patients and Healthcare Consumers: A Literature Review

Medical students’ attitudes and wishes towards extending an educational general practice app to be suitable for practice: A cross-sectional survey from Leipzig, Germany

Wikipedia and the Humanities in Higher Education: Past Time to Renegotiate the Relationship

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