Henry Markovits, Janie Brisson, Pier-Luc de Chantal, Valerie A Thompson
Interactions between inferential strategies and belief bias
Memory & cognition
patients increasingly using internet searching healthrelated information however quality readability information available internet need assessed date study assessed quality readability webbased arabic health information early childhood caries evaluate quality readability patientoriented online arabic health information regarding early childhood caries infodemiological study google yahoo search engines searched using specific arabic terms early childhood caries top 100 searches search engines considered eligible websites categorized terms affiliation commercial health portal dental practice professional journalism quality websites assessed using quality evaluation scoring tool quest readability using gunning fog index gfi total 140 websites included applying exclusion criteria 507 websites journalism majority websites 70 overall lowquality level quest score 10 quality websites retrieved google searches significantly higher quality yahoo p 00001 half 514 websites good readability gfi score 8 journalism websites significantly higher proportion websites poor readability level 62 compared affiliations p 00072 webbased arabic information regarding early childhood caries currently low quality moderate readability level thereby indicating need improving patientfacing content