MAPPinfo - mapping quality of health information: Validation study of an assessment instrument.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health information is a prerequisite for informed choices-decisions, made by individuals about their own health based on knowledge and in congruence with own preferences. Criteria for development, content and design have been defined in a corresponding guideline. However, no instruments exist that provide reasonably operationalised measurement items. Therefore, we drafted the checklist, MAPPinfo, addressing the existing criteria with 19 items.

Objectives

The current study aimed to validate MAPPinfo.

Methods

Five substudies were conducted subsequently at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany and the Medical University of Graz, Austria: (1) to determine content validity through expert reviews of the first draft, (2) to determine feasibility u

SUBMITTER: Kasper J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10593225 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature