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Did online publishers “get it right”? Using a naturalistic search strategy to review cognitive health promotion content on internet webpages

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dc.contributor.authorDelbaere, Marjorie
dc.contributor.authorHunter, P.
dc.contributor.authorO'Connel, M.
dc.contributor.authorCammer, A.
dc.contributor.authorSeaton, J.
dc.contributor.authorFriedrich, T.
dc.contributor.authorFick, F.
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-31T20:40:54Z
dc.date.available2018-10-31T20:40:54Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-15
dc.descriptionThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.en_US
dc.description.abstractBackground One of the most common uses of the Internet is to search for health-related information. Although scientific evidence pertaining to cognitive health promotion has expanded rapidly in recent years, it is unclear how much of this information has been made available to Internet users. Thus, the purpose of our study was to assess the reliability and quality of information about cognitive health promotion encountered by typical Internet users. Methods To generate a list of relevant search terms employed by Internet users, we entered seed search terms in Google Trends and recorded any terms consistently used in the prior 2 years. To further approximate the behaviour of typical Internet users, we entered each term in Google and sampled the first two relevant results. This search, completed in October 2014, resulted in a sample of 86 webpages, 48 of which had content related to cognitive health promotion. An interdisciplinary team rated the information reliability and quality of these webpages using a standardized measure. Results We found that information reliability and quality were moderate, on average. Just one retrieved page mentioned best practice, national recommendations, or consensus guidelines by name. Commercial content (i.e., product promotion, advertising content, or non-commercial) was associated with differences in reliability and quality, with product promoter webpages having the lowest mean reliability and quality ratings. Conclusions As efforts to communicate the association between lifestyle and cognitive health continue to expand, we offer these results as a baseline assessment of the reliability and quality of cognitive health promotion on the Internet.en_US
dc.description.versionPeer Revieweden_US
dc.identifier.citationHunter, P. V., Delbaere, M., O'Connell, M. E., Cammer, A., Seaton, J. X., Friedrich, T., & Fick, F. (2017). Did online publishers "get it right"? Using a naturalistic search strategy to review cognitive health promotion content on internet webpages. BMC geriatrics, 17(1), 125. doi:10.1186/s12877-017-0515-3en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12877-017-0515-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10388/11477
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBMC Geriatricsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectnaturalistic search strategyen_US
dc.subjectcognitive health promotionen_US
dc.subjectInterneten_US
dc.subjectWebpagesen_US
dc.titleDid online publishers “get it right”? Using a naturalistic search strategy to review cognitive health promotion content on internet webpagesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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