A web-based knowledge database to provide evidence-based information to cancer patients: Utilization within the PIKKO study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Cancer is associated with an urgent need for understandable and reliable information, which is often not satisfied by information available online. Therefore, as part of the PIKKO project, a web-based knowledge database (WDB) was introduced to provide cancer patients with quality-assured, evidence-based information. This paper aims to provide insights into the usage (Who? How? What?) and the effects regarding health literacy of the WDB.

Methods

A patient survey and automatically generated logfile data were evaluated. Two user groups, patients and patient navigators (PNs), were compared.

Results

The 13 PNs were responsible for 1/3 of all accesses over the entire duration of the project. The 413 patients used WDB twice on average and spent an average of 12 min p

SUBMITTER: Schneider N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11254981 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature