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Dental Websites as New Media Tools for Patients in Dental Health Tourism
INTRODUCTION: Nowadays, potential patients surf the internet to check the websites of health care organizations to select the most suitable health organization for their needs within the perspective of health tourism. To this effect, dental health tourism as a subset of health tourism is considered...
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Academy of Medical sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688302/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452572 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2019.27.128-132 |
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author | Kopmaz, Busra Kitapci, Nur Sisman Kitapci, Okan Cem Bulu, Seyma Birke Aksu, Pinar Kilic Koksal, Leyla Mumcu, Gonca |
author_facet | Kopmaz, Busra Kitapci, Nur Sisman Kitapci, Okan Cem Bulu, Seyma Birke Aksu, Pinar Kilic Koksal, Leyla Mumcu, Gonca |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Nowadays, potential patients surf the internet to check the websites of health care organizations to select the most suitable health organization for their needs within the perspective of health tourism. To this effect, dental health tourism as a subset of health tourism is considered to be a developing sector. AIM: The aim of the study was to assess whether websites are effectively used as media tools by dental health care organizations, which serve as currently active as well as promising components of health tourism in Turkey. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 555 websites of dental health care organizations were examined. Web pages were evaluated by using E-Information Quality Scale of the Health Centre. A low score indicates well-designed websites. RESULTS: Scores related to “contact information” and “website layout” were lower in the private ones (n:146) than the public institutions (n:409)(p=0.000, p=0.011). It was observed that 80.8% (n:122) of the websites with foreign language options (n:151), were private institutions); whereas, public institutions only constitute 19.2% (n:29) of the total. All sub-group scores in the scale were lower in the organizations offering foreign language alternatives in contrast to the ones without foreign language options (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: In private dental health care organizations,“ contact information” and “website layout” of websites were observed to be the most prominent features in the conduct of public relations activities. Websites with foreign language alternatives were well-designed due to the fact that language options were considered to be an incentive for the health tourists. |
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spelling | pubmed-66883022019-08-26 Dental Websites as New Media Tools for Patients in Dental Health Tourism Kopmaz, Busra Kitapci, Nur Sisman Kitapci, Okan Cem Bulu, Seyma Birke Aksu, Pinar Kilic Koksal, Leyla Mumcu, Gonca Acta Inform Med Original Paper INTRODUCTION: Nowadays, potential patients surf the internet to check the websites of health care organizations to select the most suitable health organization for their needs within the perspective of health tourism. To this effect, dental health tourism as a subset of health tourism is considered to be a developing sector. AIM: The aim of the study was to assess whether websites are effectively used as media tools by dental health care organizations, which serve as currently active as well as promising components of health tourism in Turkey. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, 555 websites of dental health care organizations were examined. Web pages were evaluated by using E-Information Quality Scale of the Health Centre. A low score indicates well-designed websites. RESULTS: Scores related to “contact information” and “website layout” were lower in the private ones (n:146) than the public institutions (n:409)(p=0.000, p=0.011). It was observed that 80.8% (n:122) of the websites with foreign language options (n:151), were private institutions); whereas, public institutions only constitute 19.2% (n:29) of the total. All sub-group scores in the scale were lower in the organizations offering foreign language alternatives in contrast to the ones without foreign language options (p<0.05). CONCLUSION: In private dental health care organizations,“ contact information” and “website layout” of websites were observed to be the most prominent features in the conduct of public relations activities. Websites with foreign language alternatives were well-designed due to the fact that language options were considered to be an incentive for the health tourists. Academy of Medical sciences 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6688302/ /pubmed/31452572 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2019.27.128-132 Text en © 2019 Busra Kopmaz, Gonca Mumcu, Nur Şişman Kitapçı http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Kopmaz, Busra Kitapci, Nur Sisman Kitapci, Okan Cem Bulu, Seyma Birke Aksu, Pinar Kilic Koksal, Leyla Mumcu, Gonca Dental Websites as New Media Tools for Patients in Dental Health Tourism |
title | Dental Websites as New Media Tools for Patients in Dental Health Tourism |
title_full | Dental Websites as New Media Tools for Patients in Dental Health Tourism |
title_fullStr | Dental Websites as New Media Tools for Patients in Dental Health Tourism |
title_full_unstemmed | Dental Websites as New Media Tools for Patients in Dental Health Tourism |
title_short | Dental Websites as New Media Tools for Patients in Dental Health Tourism |
title_sort | dental websites as new media tools for patients in dental health tourism |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688302/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31452572 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/aim.2019.27.128-132 |
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