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      Quality evaluation of health information about breast cancer treatment found on WeChat public accounts

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          Background

          With growing cases of breast cancer, WeChat public account, an important information publishing platform of WeChat, has become a breast cancer treatment health information provider to a huge audience. It is essential for health information to possess high-level accuracy and reliability. This work evaluates the quality of health information on breast cancer treatment in WeChat public accounts (WPAs), to benefit the patients while making treatment decisions and provide WPA authors with suggestions on publishing high-quality treatment health information.

          Methods

          With “breast cancer” as keywords, searches were implemented on weixin.sogou.com and the WeChat app. The WPAs oriented to patients with breast cancer were selected, and the four latest articles of each WPA were included in a set to be evaluated with DISCERN.

          Results

          A total of 37 WPAs and 136 articles published by them were included. The accounts operated by individual users were 54%. The median of overall quality of 136 articles was 44 (interquartile range = 10.75) and ranked as “fair”, of which only 28 (21%) were of “good” or higher quality. Among these articles, 74 (54%) were related to medical treatments, and 13 of them mentioned clinical trials; 36 (27%) dealt with surgery. 101 (74.26%) omitted additional sources of information; 102 (75%) did not explicitly suggest shared decision-making. A significant difference was not found in the dimensions “reliability of the articles” and “specific details of information on treatment choices” between the distinct categories of account subjects and various treatment options ( P > 0.05).

          Conclusions

          The quality of the articles on breast cancer treatment health information in WPAs was moderate. WPA producers should focus on improving the reliability of information and providing more details on treatment options, to assist patients in making optimal decisions during treatment.

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          The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13690-023-01184-2.

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          Breast cancer on the world wide web: cross sectional survey of quality of information and popularity of websites.

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          To determine the characteristics of popular breast cancer related websites and whether more popular sites are of higher quality. The search engine Google was used to generate a list of websites about breast cancer. Google ranks search results by measures of link popularity---the number of links to a site from other sites. The top 200 sites returned in response to the query "breast cancer" were divided into "more popular" and "less popular" subgroups by three different measures of link popularity: Google rank and number of links reported independently by Google and by AltaVista (another search engine). Type and quality of content. More popular sites according to Google rank were more likely than less popular ones to contain information on ongoing clinical trials (27% v 12%, P=0.01 ), results of trials (12% v 3%, P=0.02), and opportunities for psychosocial adjustment (48% v 23%, P<0.01). These characteristics were also associated with higher number of links as reported by Google and AltaVista. More popular sites by number of linking sites were also more likely to provide updates on other breast cancer research, information on legislation and advocacy, and a message board service. Measures of quality such as display of authorship, attribution or references, currency of information, and disclosure did not differ between groups. Popularity of websites is associated with type rather than quality of content. Sites that include content correlated with popularity may best meet the public's desire for information about breast cancer.
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              Evaluating breast cancer websites targeting Arabic speakers: empirical investigation of popularity, availability, accessibility, readability, and quality

              Zahraa Jasem, Zainab AlMeraj, Dari Alhuwail (2022)
              Background Nowadays, patients have access to all types of health information on the internet, influencing their decision-making process. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region consists of 22 countries with an estimated population of around 600 million. Breast cancer is the highest diagnosed cancer in this region. Websites are commonly the go-to cancer information sources. A large population of the MENA region is only fluent in the Arabic language, thus access to Arabic websites is in more demand. However, little is known about breast cancer websites that cater to an Arabic-speaking audience. This study aims at evaluating Arabic breast cancer websites and offering recommendations to improve engagement and access to health information. Methods This study employed a cross-sectional analysis approach. Google trends was used to reveal the top searched topics across the MENA region, which in turn were used as search terms to identify the websites. To be included, a website had to be active, available in Arabic, and contain breast cancer information. The evaluation was based on a combination of automated and expert-based evaluation methods through five dimensions: Availability, Accessibility, Readability, Quality, and Popularity. Results Overall most of the websites performed poorly in the five dimensions and require careful reassessment concerning design, content, and readability levels; Only one website performed well in all dimensions, except for readability. Generally, the readability scores indicated that the websites were above the recommended level of reading. None of the websites passed the automated accessibility tests. The expert evaluation using the “Health on the Net” checklist showed good results for most websites. Conclusions Breast cancer rates are rising in the MENA region, therefore having comprehensive, accurate, trustworthy, and easy-to-understand health information in their native language is a must. The results from this study show a need for improving the accessibility to breast cancer information websites available to Arabic speakers. The search was limited to three search engines yielding 10 websites and only one tool was used per dimension. Future work is needed to overcome these limitations. Collaboration between multiple stakeholders is necessary to develop websites that contain easy-to-read and understand high-quality information.
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                Contributors
                Wenjuan Yang: 1986877646@qq.com
                Bingyan Li: 772231306@qq.com
                Min Liu: 1975346770@qq.com
                Dongtong Tong: 2947922699@qq.com
                Yang Zou: 2428058827@qq.com
                Xing Li: 1328697010@qq.com
                Lunfang Xie: 527548725@qq.com
                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Arch Public Health
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Arch Public Health
                Title: Archives of Public Health
                Publisher: BioMed Central (London )
                ISSN (Print): 0778-7367
                ISSN (Electronic): 2049-3258
                Publication date (Electronic): 15 September 2023
                Publication date PMC-release: 15 September 2023
                Publication date Collection: 2023
                Volume: 81
                Electronic Location Identifier: 170
                Affiliations
                [1 ]School of Nursing, Anhui Medical University, ( https://ror.org/03xb04968) Hefei, China
                [2 ]The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, ( https://ror.org/03t1yn780) Hefei, China
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                Publisher ID: 1184
                DOI: 10.1186/s13690-023-01184-2
                PMC ID: 10503205
                PubMed ID: 37715269
                SO-VID: 66251864-6aee-40dc-9748-e3be18641841
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                History
                Date received : 24 December 2022
                Date accepted : 5 September 2023
                Funding
                Funded by: Anhui Medical University School of Nursing Graduate Youth Program Cultivation Project
                Award ID: hlqm12022007
                Funded by: Key project of natural science research in Colleges and universities of Anhui Province
                Award ID: KJ2021A0255
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Public health
                Keywords: breast cancer,treatment health information,quality evaluation,wechat public accounts
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                Keywords: breast cancer, treatment health information, quality evaluation, wechat public accounts

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