Variation in Quality of Women's Health Topic Information from Systematic Internet Searches.

ABSTRACT: Background/Objectives: The internet has unquestionably altered how people acquire health information. Instead of consulting with a medical professional, billions of pages of information can be accessed by anyone with a smartphone. Women's health issues have been historically and culturally taboo in many cultures globally; therefore, internet searches may be particularly useful when researching these topics. Methods: As an exercise in scientific information evaluation, we chose 12 non-cancer topics specific to women's health and developed a scoring metric based on quantifiable webpage attributes to answer: What topics generate the highest and lowest scores? Does the quality of information (mean score) vary across topics? Does the variation (score deviation) differ among topics

SUBMITTER: Wanamaker BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12524552 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature