Patterns of Internet Use by Pregnant Women, and Reliability of Pregnancy-Related Searches.

Objective To assess patterns of e-health use in pregnancy in an underserved racially diverse inner-city population, and to assess the accuracy of pregnancy-related information obtained from the Internet. Methods A cross sectional study of 503 pregnant/postpartum women belonging to an underserved rac...

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Publicado en:Maternal & Child Health Journal Vol. 20; no. 12; pp. 2502 - 2510
Autores principales: Narasimhulu, Deepa, Karakash, Scarlett, Weedon, Jeremy, Minkoff, Howard
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2016
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          Narasimhulu, Deepa
          Karakash, Scarlett
          Weedon, Jeremy
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        affil: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology , Maimonides Medical Center , 967, 48th Street Brooklyn 11219 USA
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          Internet Utilization
          Information Resources
          Health Information
          Human
          Pregnancy
          Female
          Adult
          Decision Making, Patient
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          New York
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          Confidence Intervals
          Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
          Summated Rating Scaling
          Adult: 19-44 years
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      ab: Objective To assess patterns of e-health use in pregnancy in an underserved racially diverse inner-city population, and to assess the accuracy of pregnancy-related information obtained from the Internet. Methods A cross sectional study of 503 pregnant/postpartum women belonging to an underserved racially diverse inner-city population who completed a survey regarding e-health use. To assess accuracy, four independent expert-reviewers rated the first 10 webpages on Google searches for each of five questions based upon those in ACOG bulletins. Results 70.8 % of pregnant/postpartum women belonging to an underserved racially diverse inner-city population were e-health users. E-health users were younger (mean age 29.4 vs. 31.2, P = 0.009), more likely to be nulliparous (50.3 vs. 21.3 %, P < 0.001), have English as their primary language (62.3 vs. 49.1 %, P = 0.014) and have a college/graduate education (78 vs. 26.6 %, P < 0.001). While 60 % of these women said e-health influenced decision making, only 71.3 % of them discussed their searches with their provider. Expert reviewers determined that the online information was fairly accurate (mean score: +1.48 to +4.33 on a scale of −5 to +5) but not uniformly accurate, and there was at least one webpage with inaccurate information for every question. Conclusions for practice Pregnant women frequently use e-health resources but do not routinely share their findings with their providers. Most, but not all, information obtained is accurate. Therefore it is important for providers to discuss their patients' use, and help to guide them to reliable information.
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