Evaluating the Feasibility of Web-Monitoring Methodology for Measuring Exposure to Online Cancer Misinformation.

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Understanding the impact of online cancer misinformation exposure on health outcomes is an area of growing concern, but few methods exist to objectively measure this exposure. The primary aim of this paper is to describe the lessons learned in using web-monitoring software to measure exposure to online cancer misinformation among patients with cancer. These lessons learned emerged from our experience conducting a prospective pilot study from October 2022 to August 2023 wherein we adopted commercially available web-monitoring software to capture cancer-related web content. A total of 56 patients with cancer completed a baseline survey, and 17 of these participants installed web-monitoring software on their personal computer for 30 days and completed a follow-up survey. We

SUBMITTER: Turner CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12306912 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature