Quality and readability of online information on ankylosing spondylitis

Koçyiğit, Burhan Fatih; Koca, Tuba Tülay; Akaltun, Mazlum Serdar

doi:10.1007/s10067-019-04706-y

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“…Gladly, there was only one commercially purposed website in the initial ten websites. Many studies demonstrated that high rates of online information are related to commercial purposes (16,27,28). However, these rates were lower than those presented in our study.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…These websites should provide the readers with adequate information; thus, nonexpert readers may assess the reliability of information easily. There are concerns about websites with financial purposes for providing biased and incomplete or incorrect information (16). As legitimating these concerns, commercial websites mostly (82.1%) provided low-reliable information.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(13) reported a 43% rate of high-reliable websites on fibromyalgia, and Kocyigit and cols. (16) reported 46% rate of high-reliable websites on Ankylosing spondylitis. The presence of the HONcode stamp varied from 7% to 53% in the aforementioned studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There are various methodological evaluations of online information. We used one of the methodologies employed in recent studies (13,14,16), but results might be different with different methods. The JAMA scoring system, used in this study, also has some limitations.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We signed out from Google account and also deleted cookies and browser history before the search to avoid the effects of previous internet use (such as Google Ads) on search results. We recorded the first 200 uniform resource locators (URLs) of websites consistently similar to the previous studies (13)(14)(15)(16). Internet users typically review websites on the first page of query results (17).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Evaluating the reliability and readability of online information on osteoporosis

Yurdakul¹,

Kilicoglu²,

Bağcıer³

2020

Archives of Endocrinology and Metabolism

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Objective: Internet usage for obtaining health-related information is widely popular among patients. However, there are still concerns about the reliability and comprehensibility of online information. The purpose of this study is to investigate the reliability and readability of osteoporosis-related websites. Materials and methods: On April 2, 2020, we searched the term "osteoporosis" on Google (https://www.google.com). We evaluated the first 200 uniform resource locators (URLs) in the query results regarding typology, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) scores, Health on the Net Foundation Code of conduct (HONcode) certification, Flesch-Kincaid Grade (FKG), and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) scores. The JAMA scoring system and HONcode stamp were used for assessing the reliability, whereas FKG and SMOG scores were used to assess the readability of online information. Results: Of the 151 analyzed websites, 57 (37.7%) were classified as highly reliable, and 19 (12.6%) were assigned with HONcode certification. The average FKG scores (8.81 ± 2.21) and SMOG scores (7.63 ± 1.81) were below the recommended grade, which is considered as easily readable. High reliable information was found to have higher readability scores, thereby representing the difficulty of readability. We observed a weak correlation between the increased reliability of information and decreased readability. Conclusion: Osteoporosis-related content on the internet generally has low reliability. High-reliable information is available online in scientific published materials, health portals, and news. Although the readability of the overall material is acceptable, the high-reliable websites still require high literacy and comprehension skills.

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confidence: 99%