Evaluation of Quality and Readability of Health Information Websites Identified through India’s Major Search Engines
المؤلفون المشاركون
Raj, S.
Sharma, V. L.
Singh, A. J.
Goel, S.
المصدر
Advances in Preventive Medicine
العدد
المجلد 2016، العدد 2016 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2016)، ص ص. 1-6، 6ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2016-03-28
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
6
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Background.
The available health information on websites should be reliable and accurate in order to make informed decisions by community.
This study was done to assess the quality and readability of health information websites on World Wide Web in India.
Methods.
This cross-sectional study was carried out in June 2014.
The key words “Health” and “Information” were used on search engines “Google” and “Yahoo.” Out of 50 websites (25 from each search engines), after exclusion, 32 websites were evaluated.
LIDA tool was used to assess the quality whereas the readability was assessed using Flesch Reading Ease Score (FRES), Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL), and SMOG.
Results.
Forty percent of websites ( n = 13 ) were sponsored by government.
Health On the Net Code of Conduct (HONcode) certification was present on 50% ( n = 16 ) of websites.
The mean LIDA score (74.31) was average.
Only 3 websites scored high on LIDA score.
Only five had readability scores at recommended sixth-grade level.
Conclusion.
Most health information websites had average quality especially in terms of usability and reliability and were written at high readability levels.
Efforts are needed to develop the health information websites which can help general population in informed decision making.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Raj, S.& Sharma, V. L.& Singh, A. J.& Goel, S.. 2016. Evaluation of Quality and Readability of Health Information Websites Identified through India’s Major Search Engines. Advances in Preventive Medicine،Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1096605
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Raj, S.…[et al.]. Evaluation of Quality and Readability of Health Information Websites Identified through India’s Major Search Engines. Advances in Preventive Medicine No. 2016 (2016), pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1096605
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Raj, S.& Sharma, V. L.& Singh, A. J.& Goel, S.. Evaluation of Quality and Readability of Health Information Websites Identified through India’s Major Search Engines. Advances in Preventive Medicine. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 2016, pp.1-6.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1096605
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-1096605
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