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The Internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in Turkey
OBJECTIVES: Parents are increasingly searching the Internet to gather information about their children’s health care. This study compared infant teething information obtained from publically employed pediatricians in Istanbul with that obtained from different Turkish websites (parenting, health, pro...
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Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27626472 http://dx.doi.org/10.6061/clinics/2016(08)04 |
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author | Haznedaroglu, Eda Mentes, Ali |
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description | OBJECTIVES: Parents are increasingly searching the Internet to gather information about their children’s health care. This study compared infant teething information obtained from publically employed pediatricians in Istanbul with that obtained from different Turkish websites (parenting, health, professional, news and commercial). METHODS: This study had two parts. The first part used a descriptive design, with two checklists to assess the quality and comprehensiveness of the teething-specific content on 62 parenting or health websites. The second part was a cross-sectional study of 75 pediatricians at public hospitals who completed a structured self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS: In total, 54 websites (87.1%) described infant teething as a normal developmental process. The lists that were found on the websites identified the most frequent signs of infant teething as fever and drooling/perioral rash. The most frequent management strategies were chewing non-chilled and chilled objects. For teething problems, some pediatricians recommended teething rings and oral benzocaine, while 23 pediatricians recommended nothing. CONCLUSIONS: Parents should be informed by health professionals, especially regarding specific treatment strategies. |
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spelling | pubmed-49757842016-08-17 The Internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in Turkey Haznedaroglu, Eda Mentes, Ali Clinics (Sao Paulo) Clinical Science OBJECTIVES: Parents are increasingly searching the Internet to gather information about their children’s health care. This study compared infant teething information obtained from publically employed pediatricians in Istanbul with that obtained from different Turkish websites (parenting, health, professional, news and commercial). METHODS: This study had two parts. The first part used a descriptive design, with two checklists to assess the quality and comprehensiveness of the teething-specific content on 62 parenting or health websites. The second part was a cross-sectional study of 75 pediatricians at public hospitals who completed a structured self-administered questionnaire. RESULTS: In total, 54 websites (87.1%) described infant teething as a normal developmental process. The lists that were found on the websites identified the most frequent signs of infant teething as fever and drooling/perioral rash. The most frequent management strategies were chewing non-chilled and chilled objects. For teething problems, some pediatricians recommended teething rings and oral benzocaine, while 23 pediatricians recommended nothing. CONCLUSIONS: Parents should be informed by health professionals, especially regarding specific treatment strategies. Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo 2016-08 2016-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4975784/ /pubmed/27626472 http://dx.doi.org/10.6061/clinics/2016(08)04 Text en Copyright © 2016 CLINICS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Clinical Science Haznedaroglu, Eda Mentes, Ali The Internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in Turkey |
title | The Internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in Turkey |
title_full | The Internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in Turkey |
title_fullStr | The Internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in Turkey |
title_full_unstemmed | The Internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in Turkey |
title_short | The Internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in Turkey |
title_sort | internet versus pediatricians as a source of infant teething information for parents in turkey |
topic | Clinical Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975784/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27626472 http://dx.doi.org/10.6061/clinics/2016(08)04 |
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