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Which Resources Are Better: Sales or Scholarly? An Assessment on the Readability, Quality, and Technical Features of Online Chemical Peel Websites

BACKGROUND: Chemical peels are an exceedingly popular cosmetic treatment with a wide variety of suppliers, each with its own online health resource describing the procedure. With increasing reliance on the internet for medical information, it is crucial that these resources provide reliable informat...

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Autores principales: Varghese, Jeffrey Alex, Patel, Anooj A, Joshi, Chitang, Alleyne, Brendan, Galiano, Robert D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/asjof/ojab008
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author Varghese, Jeffrey Alex
Patel, Anooj A
Joshi, Chitang
Alleyne, Brendan
Galiano, Robert D
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Patel, Anooj A
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description BACKGROUND: Chemical peels are an exceedingly popular cosmetic treatment with a wide variety of suppliers, each with its own online health resource describing the procedure. With increasing reliance on the internet for medical information, it is crucial that these resources provide reliable information for patients to make informed decisions. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine popular chemical peel resources and determine if those that offered chemical peel treatments (Sales) had lower readability, quality of information, and technical features compared with those that did not (Scholarly). METHODS: The term “chemical peel” was searched in July 2020 and the top 50 websites were retrieved for analysis. Each resource’s readability, quality, and technical features were measured through 8 readability formulas, the DISCERN and Health on the Net Code (HONcode), and 2 website performance monitors. RESULTS: The 50 websites were analyzed with an average Fry readability score of 13th grade. Scholarly websites displayed higher readability than Sales (Flesch Reading Ease 54.4 > 47.4, P = 0.047 and Coleman-Liau Index 10.6 < 11.7, P = 0.04). Scholarly resources surpassed Sales both in quality (DISCERN 56.4 > 39.7, P < 0.001 and HONcode 11.8 > 9.5, P = 0.032) and technical features (WooRank 76.9 > 68.6, P = 0.0082). CONCLUSIONS: The average readability of chemical peel resources is too difficult, and their quality must be improved. Scholarly resources exhibited higher readability, quality, and technical features than Sales websites.
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spelling pubmed-80113392021-04-05 Which Resources Are Better: Sales or Scholarly? An Assessment on the Readability, Quality, and Technical Features of Online Chemical Peel Websites Varghese, Jeffrey Alex Patel, Anooj A Joshi, Chitang Alleyne, Brendan Galiano, Robert D Aesthet Surg J Open Forum Cosmetic Medicine BACKGROUND: Chemical peels are an exceedingly popular cosmetic treatment with a wide variety of suppliers, each with its own online health resource describing the procedure. With increasing reliance on the internet for medical information, it is crucial that these resources provide reliable information for patients to make informed decisions. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine popular chemical peel resources and determine if those that offered chemical peel treatments (Sales) had lower readability, quality of information, and technical features compared with those that did not (Scholarly). METHODS: The term “chemical peel” was searched in July 2020 and the top 50 websites were retrieved for analysis. Each resource’s readability, quality, and technical features were measured through 8 readability formulas, the DISCERN and Health on the Net Code (HONcode), and 2 website performance monitors. RESULTS: The 50 websites were analyzed with an average Fry readability score of 13th grade. Scholarly websites displayed higher readability than Sales (Flesch Reading Ease 54.4 > 47.4, P = 0.047 and Coleman-Liau Index 10.6 < 11.7, P = 0.04). Scholarly resources surpassed Sales both in quality (DISCERN 56.4 > 39.7, P < 0.001 and HONcode 11.8 > 9.5, P = 0.032) and technical features (WooRank 76.9 > 68.6, P = 0.0082). CONCLUSIONS: The average readability of chemical peel resources is too difficult, and their quality must be improved. Scholarly resources exhibited higher readability, quality, and technical features than Sales websites. Oxford University Press 2021-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8011339/ /pubmed/33824950 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/asjof/ojab008 Text en © 2021 The Aesthetic Society. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Cosmetic Medicine
Varghese, Jeffrey Alex
Patel, Anooj A
Joshi, Chitang
Alleyne, Brendan
Galiano, Robert D
Which Resources Are Better: Sales or Scholarly? An Assessment on the Readability, Quality, and Technical Features of Online Chemical Peel Websites
title Which Resources Are Better: Sales or Scholarly? An Assessment on the Readability, Quality, and Technical Features of Online Chemical Peel Websites
title_full Which Resources Are Better: Sales or Scholarly? An Assessment on the Readability, Quality, and Technical Features of Online Chemical Peel Websites
title_fullStr Which Resources Are Better: Sales or Scholarly? An Assessment on the Readability, Quality, and Technical Features of Online Chemical Peel Websites
title_full_unstemmed Which Resources Are Better: Sales or Scholarly? An Assessment on the Readability, Quality, and Technical Features of Online Chemical Peel Websites
title_short Which Resources Are Better: Sales or Scholarly? An Assessment on the Readability, Quality, and Technical Features of Online Chemical Peel Websites
title_sort which resources are better: sales or scholarly? an assessment on the readability, quality, and technical features of online chemical peel websites
topic Cosmetic Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011339/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824950
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/asjof/ojab008
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