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The extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information: a systematic review
BACKGROUND: The use of the internet to satisfy information needs is widespread among cancer patients. Patients’ decisions regarding whether to act upon the information they find strongly depend on the trustworthiness of the information and the medium. Patients who are younger, more highly educated a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6776066/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31592341 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7634 |
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author | Lange, Lukas Peikert, Mona Leandra Bleich, Christiane Schulz, Holger |
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description | BACKGROUND: The use of the internet to satisfy information needs is widespread among cancer patients. Patients’ decisions regarding whether to act upon the information they find strongly depend on the trustworthiness of the information and the medium. Patients who are younger, more highly educated and female are more likely to trust online information. The objectives of this systematic review were to examine the extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information, internet websites as a source of cancer-related information or the internet as a medium of cancer information. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted using five databases (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42017070190). Studies of any kind were included if they measured cancer patients’ trust in online health information. Study quality was assessed using the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) item bank. A narrative synthesis was undertaken to examine the included studies. RESULTS: Of the 7,314 citations obtained by the search, seven cross-sectional studies were included in the synthesis. A total of 1,054 patients reported having some or a great deal of trust in online cancer information; 154 patients reported moderately trusting such information; and 833 patients reported having no or little trust in online cancer information, internet websites as a source of cancer-related information or the internet as a medium of cancer-related information. Two of the seven studies reported between group comparisons for the above-stated patient characteristics. The methodological quality of the included studies was diverse. CONCLUSION: The results of the included studies indicates that approximately half of cancer patients appear to trust cancer-specific online information, internet websites as a source of cancer-related information or the internet as an information medium. However, the small number of included studies, high heterogeneity of participants, methods and outcomes calls for further systematic research. It is important to understand that cancer patients do and will increasingly use trusted cancer information websites to search for information concerning their disease. Therefore, physicians and other health care providers should provide more support and advice to these patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-67760662019-10-07 The extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information: a systematic review Lange, Lukas Peikert, Mona Leandra Bleich, Christiane Schulz, Holger PeerJ Oncology BACKGROUND: The use of the internet to satisfy information needs is widespread among cancer patients. Patients’ decisions regarding whether to act upon the information they find strongly depend on the trustworthiness of the information and the medium. Patients who are younger, more highly educated and female are more likely to trust online information. The objectives of this systematic review were to examine the extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information, internet websites as a source of cancer-related information or the internet as a medium of cancer information. METHODS: A systematic review was conducted using five databases (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42017070190). Studies of any kind were included if they measured cancer patients’ trust in online health information. Study quality was assessed using the Research Triangle Institute (RTI) item bank. A narrative synthesis was undertaken to examine the included studies. RESULTS: Of the 7,314 citations obtained by the search, seven cross-sectional studies were included in the synthesis. A total of 1,054 patients reported having some or a great deal of trust in online cancer information; 154 patients reported moderately trusting such information; and 833 patients reported having no or little trust in online cancer information, internet websites as a source of cancer-related information or the internet as a medium of cancer-related information. Two of the seven studies reported between group comparisons for the above-stated patient characteristics. The methodological quality of the included studies was diverse. CONCLUSION: The results of the included studies indicates that approximately half of cancer patients appear to trust cancer-specific online information, internet websites as a source of cancer-related information or the internet as an information medium. However, the small number of included studies, high heterogeneity of participants, methods and outcomes calls for further systematic research. It is important to understand that cancer patients do and will increasingly use trusted cancer information websites to search for information concerning their disease. Therefore, physicians and other health care providers should provide more support and advice to these patients. PeerJ Inc. 2019-09-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6776066/ /pubmed/31592341 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7634 Text en ©2019 Lange et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Oncology Lange, Lukas Peikert, Mona Leandra Bleich, Christiane Schulz, Holger The extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information: a systematic review |
title | The extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information: a systematic review |
title_full | The extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information: a systematic review |
title_fullStr | The extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information: a systematic review |
title_full_unstemmed | The extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information: a systematic review |
title_short | The extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information: a systematic review |
title_sort | extent to which cancer patients trust in cancer-related online information: a systematic review |
topic | Oncology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6776066/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31592341 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7634 |
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