Assessment of Health Information About COVID-19 Prevention on the Internet: Infodemiological Study

Hernández-García, Ignacio; Giménez-Júlvez, Teresa

doi:10.2196/18717

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“…In our current digital world, on-line platforms are perhaps the most accessible source of health-related information for the public. 4 Hence, government agencies and national and international health agencies should consider increasing their on-line presence and consider on-line platforms and social media as a popular source for dissemination of reliable information to get to an optimal adherence to preventative measures population-wide and improve the education of the public.…”

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Stroke Health Care Use and COVID-19

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2020

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“…Further, the scienti c information about COVID-19 seems to be full of aws owing to the fact that the disease is novel, and no full picture of its etiopathogenesis, clinical manifestations, laboratory ndings, preventive and treatment measures have been in hand yet [5]. Hernández-García et al [25] argued that "It is necessary to urge and promote the use of the websites of o cial public health organizations when seeking information on COVID-19 preventive measures on the internet. "…”

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Quality and readability of web-based Arabic health information on COVID-19: Infodemiology study

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Alakhali

Al-Mekhlafi

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Objective: The study sought to assess the quality and readability of the web-based Arabic health information on COVID-19. Methods: Selected search engines were searched on 13 April 2020 for specific Arabic terms on COVID-19. The first 100 consecutive websites from each engine were obtained. The quality of the websites was analyzed using the Health on the Net Foundation Code of Conduct (HONcode), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmarks, and the DISCERN benchmarks instrument. The readability was assessed using an online readability calculator tool. Results: Overall, 36 websites were found eligible for quality and readability analyses. Only one website (2.7%) was HONcode certified. No single website attained a high score based on the DISCERN tool; the mean score of all websites was 31.5±12.55. Regarding JAMA benchmarks, a mean score of 2.08±1.05 was achieved by the websites; however, only 4 (11.1%) websites achieved all JAMA criteria. The average grade levels for readability were 7.2±7.5, 3.3±0.6 and 93.5±19.4 for Flesch Kincaid Grade level, SMOG, Flesch Reading Ease, respectively. Conclusion: Most of the available web-based Arabic health information on COVID-19 doesn’t have the required level of quality, irrespective of being easy to read and understand by most of the general people.

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“…[9] Then, we collected 126 index-secondary infector-infected pairs of con rmed cases with known or coarsely reported date of symptom onset by scanning publicly available case reports from o cial health websites or reliable news or other published papers as of February 16, 2020 (S1 Table). [4,10] Last, we further collected the daily new con rmed cases overseas from WHO reports as of February 26, 2020. [2] Process of Data Analysis…”

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China’s effective control and other countries’ uncharted challenge against COVID-19: an epidemiological and modelling study

Zheng

Qin

Chen

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Objective: In this study, we use the time-dependent reproduction number (Rt) to comprise the COVID transmissibility across different countries.Methods: We used data from Jan 20, 2019, to Feb 29, 2020, on the number of newly confirmed cases, obtained from the reports published by the CDC, to infer the incidence of infectious over time. A two-step procedure was used to estimate the Rt. The first step used data on known index-secondary cases pairs, from publicly available case reports, to estimate the serial interval distribution. The second step estimated the Rt jointly from the incidence data and the information data in the first step. Rt was then used to simulate the epidemics across all major cities in China and typical countries worldwide. Results: Based on a total of 126 index-secondary cases pairs from 4 international regions, we estimated that the serial interval for SARS-2-CoV was 4.18 (IQR 1.92 – 6.65) days. Domestically, Rt of China, Hubei province, Wuhan had fallen below 1.0 on 9 Feb, 10 Feb and 13 Feb (Rt were 0.99±0.02, 0.99±0.02 and 0.96±0.02), respectively. Internationally, as of 26 Feb, statistically significant periods of COVID spread (Rt >1) were identified for most regions, except for Singapore (Rt was 0.92±0.17).Conclusions: The epidemic in China has been well controlled, but the worldwide pandemic has not been well controlled. Worldwide preparedness and vulnerability against COVID-19 should be regarded with more care.

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Assessment of Health Information About COVID-19 Prevention on the Internet: Infodemiological Study

Abstract: of UNESCO for their valuable review and comments. Contributors are listed in order, and under their contribution. We wish to thank the following people for their kind review and comments (listed in alphabetical order of institution, followed by alphabetical order of surname):ISBN:

Cited by 179 publications

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Stroke Health Care Use and COVID-19

Quality and readability of web-based Arabic health information on COVID-19: Infodemiology study

China’s effective control and other countries’ uncharted challenge against COVID-19: an epidemiological and modelling study

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