QUALIDADE, APREENSIBILIDADE E ADEQUABILIDADE DAS INFORMAÇÕES EM LíNGUA PORTUGUESA SOBRE GLAUCOMA NA INTERNET

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the quality, readability and suitability of the information about glaucoma in Portuguese available on the Internet. Methods: We used as keyword 'glaucoma' for research on four search engines in the Internet. The first 30 sites that appeared on each search engine were recorded and those that appeared at least in two search engines were selected. The Sandvik score, Flesch-Kincaid formula and the Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM) were used as tools to evaluate quality, readability and suitability, respectively. Results: The information provided on the websites presented moderate quality (mean Sandvik score 7.7 ± 1.4), readability of 16.0 ± 1.7 years of education and were unsuitable (mean SAM score 21.4 ± 6.4 %) for the target audience. Conclusion: Most websites about glaucoma had moderate quality. In order to understand the information, an average of 16 years of formal education was deemed necessary. All websites were unsuitable to the target population.

Keywords

• glaucoma
• information
• internet
• patient education as topic