Quality of information of websites dedicated to obesity: a systematic search to promote high level of information for Internet users and professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Internet is increasingly used as a source of information. This study investigates with a multidimensional methodology the quality of information of websites dedicated to obesity treatment and weight-loss interventions. We compared websites in English, a language that it is used for the international scientific divulgation, and in Italian, a popular local language.

Methods

Level of Evidence: Level I, systematic review search on four largely used search engines. Duplicated and unrelated websites were excluded. We checked: popularity with PageRank; technological quality with Nibbler; readability with the Flesch Reading Ease test or the Gulpease readability index; quality of information with the DISCERN scale, the JAMA benchmark criteria, and the adherence to the

SUBMITTER: Perra A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8860948 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature