Quality assessment of available Internet information on early orthodontic treatment.
Background: This study aimed to evaluate the content, reliability, quality and readability of information on Internet websites about early orthodontic treatment. Methods: The "early orthodontic treatment" search term was individually entered into four web search engines. The content quality and reli...
| Publicado en: | BMC Oral Health Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 1 - 10 |
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BioMed Central
3/19/2024
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=176144702&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 176144702 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 14726831 1CIC jtl: BMC Oral Health issn: 14726831 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 3/19/2024 vid: 24 iid: 1 pid: 24147 pub: BioMed Central artinfo: ui: 176144702 176144702 176144702 10.1186/s12903-024-04019-w 176144702 ppf: 1 ppct: 9 formats: tig: atl: Quality assessment of available Internet information on early orthodontic treatment. aug: au: Alpaydin, Mehmed Taha Alpaydin, Tugce Koklu, Merve Buyuk, Suleyman Kutalmış affil: https://ror.org/04r0hn449 Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Ordu University, 52200, Ordu, Turkey sug: subj: Orthodontics Health Information Quality Assessment Internet Utilization World Wide Web Consumer Health Information Evaluation Human Web Search Engines Professional Organizations Access to Information Readability Evaluation ab: Background: This study aimed to evaluate the content, reliability, quality and readability of information on Internet websites about early orthodontic treatment. Methods: The "early orthodontic treatment" search term was individually entered into four web search engines. The content quality and reliability were reviewed with DISCERN, Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA), and Health on the Net code (HONcode) tools using the contents of websites meeting predetermined criteria. The readability of websites was evaluated with Flesch Reading Facilitate Score (FRES) and Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level (FKGL). Results: Eighty-six websites were suitable for inclusion and scoring of the 200 websites. 80.2% of websites belonged to orthodontists, 15.1% to multidisciplinary dental clinics and 4.7% to professional organizations. The mean DISCERN score of all websites (parts 1 and 2) was 27.98/75, ranging between 19 and 67. Professional organization websites had the highest scores for DISCERN criteria. Moreover, 45.3% of websites were compatible with JAMA's disclosure criterion, 7% with the currency criterion, 5.8% with the authorship criterion and 5.8% with the attribution criterion. Only three websites met all JAMA criteria, and these websites belonged to professional organizations. None of the websites had the HONcode logo. Mean FRES and FKGL were 47.6 and 11.6, respectively. Conclusions: The quality of web-based information about early orthodontic treatment is poor, and readability is insufficient. More accurate and higher quality Internet sources are required on the web. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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