Maan Isabella Cajita|Tamar Rodney|Jingzhi Xu|Melissa Hladek|Hae Ra Han
Quality and Health Literacy Demand of Online Heart Failure Information
Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins University
ubiquity internet changing way people obtain health information although abundance heart failure information online quality health literacy demand information still unknownthe purpose study evaluate quality health literacy demand readability understandability actionability heart failure information found onlinegoogle yahoo bing askcom duckduckgo searched relevant heart failure web sites two independent raters assessed quality health literacy demand included web sites quality heart failure information assessed using discern instrument readability assessed using 7 established readability tests finally understandability actionability assessed using patient education materials assessment tool print materialsa total 46 web sites included analysis overall mean quality rating 460 89 mean readability score 126 grade reading level overall mean understandability score 563 162 finally overall mean actionability score 347 287the heart failure information found online fair quality required relatively high health literacy level web content authors need consider quality also health literacy demand information found web sites especially important considering low health literacy likely prevalent among usual audience