Quality of web based information on treatment of depression: cross sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate quality of web based information on treatment of depression, to identify potential indicators of content quality, and to establish if accountability criteria are indicators of quality.

Design

Cross sectional survey.

Data sources

21 frequently accessed websites about depression.

Main outcome measures

(i) Site characteristics; (ii) quality of content-concordance with evidence based depression guidelines (guideline score), appropriateness of other relevant site information (issues score), and subjective rating of site quality (global score); and (iii) accountability-conformity with core accountability standards (Silberg score) and quality of evidence cited in support of conclusions (level of evidence score).

Results

Although the sites

SUBMITTER: Griffiths KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC27555 | biostudies-literature | 2000 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature