Quality evaluation of health information about breast cancer treatment found on WeChat public accounts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With growing cases of breast cancer, WeChat public account, an important information publishing platform of WeChat, has become a breast cancer treatment health information provider to a huge audience. It is essential for health information to possess high-level accuracy and reliability. This work evaluates the quality of health information on breast cancer treatment in WeChat public accounts (WPAs), to benefit the patients while making treatment decisions and provide WPA authors with suggestions on publishing high-quality treatment health information.

Methods

With "breast cancer" as keywords, searches were implemented on weixin.sogou.com and the WeChat app. The WPAs oriented to patients with breast cancer were selected, and the four latest articles of each WPA wer

SUBMITTER: Yang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10503205 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature