Qualidade das informações de saúde e medicamentos nos sítios brasileiros

Gondim, Ana Paula Soares; Weyne, Davi Pontes; Ferreira, Bruno Sousa Pinto

doi:10.1590/s1679-45082012000300014

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“…In addition, the lack of these features makes taking responsibility for the information provided unfeasible. These results are in agreement with other studies 15,34,35 . In contrast, Hirata et al 36 identified a description of the person responsible for 79.3% of the 4 Brazilian sites on coronary disease analysed.…”

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confidence: 94%

Informação sobre benzodiazepínicos: o que a internet nos oferece?

Ramos

Bokehi

Oliveira

et al. 2020

Ciênc. saúde coletiva

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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.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 94%

Informação sobre benzodiazepínicos: o que a internet nos oferece?

Ramos

Bokehi

Oliveira

et al. 2020

Ciênc. saúde coletiva

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“…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).…”

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confidence: 81%

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

Ribeiro

Melo

Costa

et al. 2021

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The internet enables the search for several subject types, including health and drug utilization. These information are spread generally without reliability and scientific basis, that can encourage self-medication and indiscriminate medicine use. This was a cross-sectional study, carried out through application of tools that evaluated the quality of global health information and the specific content about analgesic drugs on 98 Brazilian websites. Among the most cited drugs on websites, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (83.67 %), acetaminophen (47.96 %) and opioids (47.96 %) stood out. All websites described pharmacological treatment options for pain, however, most websites did not mention any adverse reactions or contraindications for painkillers use. Information on opioid addiction and tolerance risk was present only in 18.37 % of websites. Considering all the indicators evaluated, no website was considered to be of good quality, even those with a quality certification seal. These results showed important shortcomings on health and drugs information published on internet, which can lead to analgesics inappropriate use, adverse effects and even intoxications events. This reinforces the need to control this information and to adopt minimum quality criteria for the websites, aiming to minimize health risks, drug irrational use and to contribute for lay public’s safety.

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“…Despite the problems linked to each of these, the last calls for attention, it is an increasing source of health self-care, including self-medication, with a big variety on quality of information among websites. Indeed, Gondim et al (2012) documented the generally poor quality of information about medicines on Brazilian websites.…”

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confidence: 99%

Inappropriate use of medicines and associated factors in Brazil: an approach from a national household survey

Luiza

Mendes

Tavares

et al. 2019

Health Policy and Planning

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This article aims to describe the inappropriate use of medicines in the Brazilian urban population and to identify associated factors. We conducted a data analysis of a household survey carried out in Brazil in 2013–14. The sampling plan was done by clusters with representativeness of the urban population and large regions of the country, according to gender and age domains. For this analysis, we considered a sample of adults (≥20 years) who reported having chronic non-communicable diseases, medical indication for drug treatment and medicine use (n = 12 283). We evaluated the prevalence of inappropriate use in the domains: non-adherence, inappropriate use behaviour and inadequate care with medicines, all verified in the following groups of independent variables: demographic and socio-economic characteristics, health and pharmaceutical care, health status and use of medicines. Crude and adjusted prevalence ratios were obtained using robust Poisson regression. It was found 46.1% of people having at least one behaviour of inappropriate use of medicines. The worst results were found for the domain of inappropriate use behaviour, a situation of 36.6% of the users, which included unauthorized prescriber, inadequate source of information and indication of the medicines by non-authorized prescribers. The best result was found for the lack of medicines care, informed by only 4.6% of users who kept expired drugs at home. The inappropriate use of medicines was associated with gender (female), region of residence (Northeast), not visiting the doctor regularly or visiting more than one doctor, not having free access to medicines and using of five or more medicines. There was a high prevalence of inappropriate use, which was associated with both individual and health system characteristics pointing out the need to set priorities as for health education and public interventions.

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Qualidade das informações de saúde e medicamentos nos sítios brasileiros

Abstract: The honesty criterion differed significantly between sites, and the quality of information presented on health and medication websites showed significant differences, suggesting the need for a more systematic organization of these topics on the Internet.

Cited by 13 publications

References 11 publications

Informação sobre benzodiazepínicos: o que a internet nos oferece?

Informação sobre benzodiazepínicos: o que a internet nos oferece?

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

Inappropriate use of medicines and associated factors in Brazil: an approach from a national household survey

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