Meeting the needs of families: facilitating access to credible healthcare information

EBN engages readers through a range of online social media activities to debate issues important to nurses and nursing. EBN Opinion papers highlight and expand on these debates. Background Following an increase in the use of the internet in everyday life, research has identified that individuals are increasingly turning to the internet as a means for identifying information about healthcare conditions.1 One study identified that 98% of parents surveyed used the internet to search for information about their child's condition.2 While the use of the internet as an information seeking source is not problematic in itself, a substantial proportion of information has been identified as not being credible, meaning that families are often faced with poor quality non-evidence-based healthcare information.3 Compounding this problem is the fact that families typically do not have access to the traditional academic sources in which research...
Source: Evidence-Based Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Tags: EBN Opinion, Child health Source Type: research