How to sort trustworthy health online information? Improvements of the automated detection of HONcode criteria

Boyer, Célia; Frossard, Cdric; Gaudinat, Arnaud; Hanbury, Allan; Falquetd, Gilles

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2017.11.122

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“…In accordance with previous papers [23], our analysis found that health portal websites had the majority of HONcode certifications. Although one limitation with HONcode certification is that accuracy is not measured, studies have found certified educational material is more accurate [24]. Health portals also scored the highest median JAMA score of 4 and QIS score of 3, confirming they had a higher than average quality of information and thus good evidence-based health information coverage.…”

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Analysis of online information available for treatment of depression

Clarke

Ghezzi

2019

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The Internet has become a prime source of health information available to the public. Our aims were to assess the content and quality of online information for the treatment of depression. We searched, 'How to cure depression' on Google and analysed the first 200 websites according to the website typology and a standard health information assessment tool, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) criteria (presence of authorship, date, disclosure, and references). We also analyzed content in terms of treatments mentioned and developed a Quality Indicator Score (QIS) based on the guidelines for treating depression from the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). News websites were the most frequent typology followed by health portals, non-profit, professional and government; commercial websites were the least represented. In the top ten websites, news and health portals remained first and second respectively. Antidepressants were the most mentioned treatment, followed by psychotherapy, lifestyle & exercise, social support, diet. The least mentioned interventions were sunlight & light therapy, routine, and ketamine & psychedelics. Commercial websites preferentially mentioned supplements, while ketamine and psychedelic drugs were the most covered by news outlets. Analysing webpages according to our QIS showed the median of NICE recommended treatments was 2.5 out of 5 possible treatments: antidepressants, lifestyle & exercise, psychotherapy, social support and ECT. Government websites had the highest QIS, news and commercial websites the lowest. Webpages with high QIS ranked higher in Google.

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Analysis of online information available for treatment of depression

Clarke

Ghezzi

2019

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“…Moreover, identifying health information from prevention and control measures is a major blind spot for the public. The public are partly responsible for selecting and filtering trustworthy health information [ 17 ]. Research shows that more than half of respondents trust almost all information online [ 18 ], and people are more likely to believe health rumors because of basic safety needs [ 19 ].…”

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Factors Affecting Public Adoption of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment Information During an Infodemic: Cross-sectional Survey Study

Han¹,

Jiang²,

Guo³

2021

J Med Internet Res

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Background With the spread of COVID-19, an infodemic is also emerging. In public health emergencies, the use of information to enable disease prevention and treatment is incredibly important. Although both the information adoption model (IAM) and health belief model (HBM) have their own merits, they only focus on information or public influence factors, respectively, to explain the public’s intention to adopt online prevention and treatment information. Objective The aim of this study was to fill this gap by using a combination of the IAM and the HBM as the framework for exploring the influencing factors and paths in public health events that affect the public’s adoption of online health information and health behaviors, focusing on both objective and subjective factors. Methods We carried out an online survey to collect responses from participants in China (N=501). Structural equation modeling was used to evaluate items, and confirmatory factor analysis was used to calculate construct reliability and validity. The goodness of fit of the model and mediation effects were analyzed. Results The overall fitness indices for the model developed in this study indicated an acceptable fit. Adoption intention was predicted by information characteristics (β=.266, P<.001) and perceived usefulness (β=.565, P<.001), which jointly explained nearly 67% of the adoption intention variance. Information characteristics (β=.244, P<.001), perceived drawbacks (β=–.097, P=.002), perceived benefits (β=.512, P<.001), and self-efficacy (β=.141, P<.001) jointly determined perceived usefulness and explained about 81% of the variance of perceived usefulness. However, social influence did not have a statistically significant impact on perceived usefulness, and self-efficacy did not significantly influence adoption intention directly. Conclusions By integrating IAM and HBM, this study provided the insight and understanding that perceived usefulness and adoption intention of online health information could be influenced by information characteristics, people’s perceptions of information drawbacks and benefits, and self-efficacy. Moreover, people also exhibited proactive behavior rather than reactive behavior to adopt information. Thus, we should consider these factors when helping the informed public obtain useful information via two approaches: one is to improve the quality of government-based and other official information, and the other is to improve the public’s capacity to obtain information, in order to promote truth and fight rumors. This will, in turn, contribute to saving lives as the pandemic continues to unfold and run its course.

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“…The established codes of conduct and quality standards, such as HONcode, were created to standardize the minimum criteria required for health publications on the Internet. These aim to ensure that the content published is correct, appropriate, impartial, and follows ethical principles necessary for the safety of users who will come into contact with the information (Boyer et al, 2017). Those responsible for websites' greater involvement and commitment to see certification as an advantage are emphasized in this context.…”

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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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How to sort trustworthy health online information? Improvements of the automated detection of HONcode criteria

Cited by 15 publications

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Analysis of online information available for treatment of depression

Analysis of online information available for treatment of depression

Factors Affecting Public Adoption of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment Information During an Infodemic: Cross-sectional Survey Study

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

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