Informação sobre benzodiazepínicos: o que a internet nos oferece?

Abstract

Resumo Este trabalho analisou a qualidade da informação veiculada na internet sobre 4 benzodiazepínicos amplamente utilizados no Brasil: alprazolam, bromazepam, clonazepam e diazepam. Essa escolha se justifica pelo fato desses medicamentos serem amplamente utilizados, poderem gerar dependência química e a internet ser importante fonte de informação sobre eles. Foram analisados 20 sites para cada medicamento. Mais da metade (56,3%) dos sites foram classificados como deficientes ou muito deficientes. Os problemas mais frequentes foram a ausência da descrição do responsável pelo sítio (60%), informação incompleta (62,5%), ausência de contato para informação adicional (45%) e da última data da atualização (82%). Os resultados reforçam a preocupação com a qualidade da informação em saúde veiculada na internet, já apontada pela literatura, e a necessidade de adoção de critérios mínimos de qualidade para esta informação.

Analgesic drugs: What quality of information is present on the Internet?

“…The absence of complete information about diseases and treatments can contribute to the incorrect use of drugs, placing patients' health at risk (Gondim et al, 2012). With the present results, the importance of evaluating and knowing the quality of the information conveyed on the Internet and accessed by individuals is emphasized, in an attempt to define quality standards, guaranteeing more excellent safety to users (Moretti et al, 2012;Ramos et al, 2020). The literature on the evaluation of the quality of information on medicines on the Internet is minimal.…”

“…Most advertisements follow publication techniques generally used in advertising and marketing in the media in general, disseminating information endowed with imbalance and bias (Arrais et al, 2016). The tactic of emphasizing benefits and minimizing possible treatment complications aligns with what is described in the literature (Cerminara et al, 2014;Ramos et al, 2020).…”

“…Final score values between 50 and 79 % indicated moderate quality, being the publication considered a source of information with reservations, limitations, and the need for additional data. And the final score values below 50 % of the maximum score showed low quality, indicating that the website had severe deficiencies in the content, not a valuable and adequate source of information (Charnock et al, 1999;Ramos et al, 2020).…”

YouTube as a source of information on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine during the COVID-19 pandemic

“…Although these studies are widely disseminated in the scientific community, they do not reach as easily the entire population. The Internet has been identified as a significant source of health-related research, [Rocha Garbin, Faria Pereira Neto and Guilam, 2008;Oliveira, Bertollo-Golloni and Pavarino, 2013;Silvestre et al, 2012] as well as the search for information related to COVID-19 [Bento et al, 2020;Effenberger et al, 2020;Higgins et al, 2020], even though some social networks and websites increasingly present deficient, incorrect or incomprehensible information [Bastani and Bahrami, 2020;Mian and Khan, 2020;Ramos et al, 2019]. In this scenario, it is up to users and the media to interpret it correctly [Cuan-Baltazar et al, 2020].…”

“…The quality of information about medicines on the internet and social networks has been the subject of study of several authors, who have warned of problems in the quality of the information conveyed, which can negatively affect users' decisions about the use of these technologies [Faria Pereira Neto et al, 2017;Sinclair et al, 2017;Al Khaja, AlKhaja and Sequeira, 2018;Ramos et al, 2019].…”