2017
DOI: 10.5195/jmla.2017.108
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Questioning reliability assessments of health information on social media

Abstract: This narrative review examines assessments of the reliability of online health information retrieved through social media to ascertain whether health information accessed or disseminated through social media should be evaluated differently than other online health information. Several medical, library and information science, and interdisciplinary databases were searched using terms relating to social media, reliability, and health information. While social media’s increasing role in health information consump… Show more

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“…As social media platforms increase in popularity and become a mainstream source for acquiring information, they can offer unlimited access to health content while transcending factors such as age, education, race, or ethnicity (Dalmer 2017). However, there has recently been much controversy surrounding the accuracy and reliability of health information about COVID-19 on social media.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As social media platforms increase in popularity and become a mainstream source for acquiring information, they can offer unlimited access to health content while transcending factors such as age, education, race, or ethnicity (Dalmer 2017). However, there has recently been much controversy surrounding the accuracy and reliability of health information about COVID-19 on social media.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Internet is a frequently accessed resource [60, 61], but is mainly used to supplement, rather than provide alternate advice to that given by women’s health care practitioners [57]. Concerns have been raised regarding the reliability, accuracy and currency of information pregnant women may find on the Internet and use to support their health [63, 64]. Women in the present study recognised the need to be discerning when assessing information accessed via the Internet or social media, choosing to combine information found online with information from other mothers, HCPs and their own knowledge.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These results suggest that on the one hand, there are uncertainties or a “healthy” distrust on the reliability of health information derived from newspapers, magazines, television and the internet. On the other hand, despite the increasing importance of the internet for medical information [41], that health care professionals remain to be most trusted contact persons for health related concerns. However, apart from simple instructions, a considerable percentage of the population had difficulties in more complex interactions with the health care system, such as “to use information the doctor gives you to make decisions about your illness?” or “to judge when you may need to get a second opinion from another doctor?” [24,29,40] These findings indicate that there is still a high potential for improving the doctor-patient communication and more explicitly, for health care professionals to interact in a clear and understandable way and to actively integrate patients in decision making processes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%