O071 An assessment of information available online for the public regarding aortic aneurysms

Autor: J Lim, Y Guang, L Hanna, R Gibbs
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: British Journal of Surgery. 110
ISSN: 1365-2168
0007-1323
DOI: 10.1093/bjs/znad101.071
Popis: Introduction Objective - To assess the quality of information provided by open access websites regarding aortic aneurysms (AA) on the World Wide Web. Methods The first 50 results from Yahoo, Bing and Google were collected using the search term ‘aortic aneurysm’ and duplicates removed. Website quality was scored using the University of Michigan Consumer Health Website tool (maximum score 80). Website readability was assessed using the Flesch Reading Ease (FRE)score (maximum score 100) and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) score (years of education needed). Subjective assessment was undertaken to assess the quality of website content. Results 59 of 81 websites were included for analysis after applying the exclusion criteria. 59.3% of websites were targeted at abdominal aortic aneurysms, and only 3.4% specific to thoracic aneurysms. The mean Michigan score for all sources was 48.6 (SD ±5.8), indicating sources were weak globally irrespective of publisher (public, private, independent or non-profit organization). Most sources were rated as requiring standard reading level, with a global average FRE of 62.72 (SD ±10.8). Mean SMOG scores showed that websites published by private organisations required the least educational level to read (mean = 10.5, SD ± 0.1). Conclusion Current online websites providing education to the public and professionals regarding aortic aneuryms are consistently low quality and lack comprehensiveness, with a paucity of information available for thoracic aortic aneurysms specifically. Efforts must be made to improve the quality of sources as well as expanding the scope of content to facilitate patient awareness and decision-making autonomy.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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