Factors Associated With Perceived Trust of False Abortion Websites: Cross-sectional Online Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most patients use the internet to search for health information. While there is a vast repository of searchable information online, much of the content is unregulated and therefore potentially incorrect, conflicting, or confusing. Abortion information online is particularly prone to being inaccurate as antichoice websites publish purposefully misleading information in formats that appear as neutral resources. To understand how antichoice websites appear neutral, we need to understand the specific website features of antichoice websites that impart an impression of trustworthiness.

Objective

We sought to identify the characteristics of false or misleading abortion websites that make these websites appear trustworthy to the public.

Methods

We conducted a cros

SUBMITTER: Chaiken SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8094019 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature