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Evaluating the Dental Caries Related Information on Indian Websites: A Qualitative Study
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NAZIYA KB, D.SRISAKTHI, I MEIGNANA ARUMUGHAM, R PRADEEP KUMAR
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Globally, the internet has made contemporary revolutions making the shared information more accessible. Retrieving any information is much easier now than ever before. The availability of ubiquitous access to various social networks and modern search engines via smartphones, tablets or laptops has made any information accessible almost at any time of the day. A large number of tools is available to assess the quality of information. DISCERN is an instrument, or tool, which has been designed to help users of consumer health information judge the quality of written information about treatment choices. To determine the readability and the reliability of dental caries-related information retrieved on Indian websites.The present study was designed to assess the readability and the reliability of dental caries-related information retrieved on Indian websites. After determining specific search strategy, the websites were retrieved from most used search engines like Google search and Yahoo. The English term “Tooth decay” was entered in the most commonly search engine Google and Yahoo. From a total of 1,81,00,000 results obtained in various search engines we included in our study the first 25 links in each search engine. We evaluated about 50 websites, not connected to each other. The data was subjected to appropriate statistical analysis. In this study, among the 50 websites, only 7(14%) had good reliability, about 40(80%) had fair reliability. Also only about 3(6%) had good quality of information on treatment choices, about 35(70%) had fair quality. It also shows that only about 18(36%) had good overall quality.Based on the aim of the study, internet-based information about dental caries is yet not completely reliable source and also in terms of quality of source of information in treatment choices. Also, dental caries related contents were fairly easy according to the FRE-BP scale.
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Dental caries, Oral health, Internet, Reliability, Discern.
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.12.02.384
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