Parental Evaluation of a Nurse Practitioner-Developed Pediatric Neurosurgery Website.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Parents often turn to the Internet to seek health information about their child's diagnosis and condition. Information, support, and resources regarding pediatric neurosurgery are scarce, hard to find, and difficult to comprehend. To address this gap, a pediatric nurse practitioner designed a website called the Neurosurgery Kids Fund (NKF). Analyzing the legitimacy of the NKF website for parents seeking health information and fulfilling their social and resource needs is critical to the website's future development and success.

Objective

To explore parental usage of the NKF website, track visitor behavior, evaluate usability and design, establish ways to improve user experience, and identify ways to redesign the website. The aim of this study was to assess and eva

SUBMITTER: Vogel TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4846784 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature