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An increasing number of people use social media to find and share health information; this study sought to explore this information’s quality by focusing on health information distributed on online peer-to-peer infertility discussion forums. This study asked the following question: What is the quality of infertility health information posted to peer online-infertility discussion forums, as rated by health sciences librarians? Specifically, this research seeks to expand on an earlier study that suggests quality health information can be found on online forums. Health librarians were given a sample of infertility forum threads from infertility forums and asked to evaluate the accuracy of the information on a five-question scale. Some of this study’s results suggest health forums might be a useful information tool as part of a larger clinical treatment plan guided by a doctor. However, other scales of measurement in this study suggest the results are inconclusive. |
