TY - JOUR
T1 - Internet sites offering adolescents help with headache, abdominal pain, and dysmenorrhoea: A description of content, quality, and peer interactions
AU - Henderson, Ellen M
AU - Rosser, Benjamin A
AU - Keogh, Edmund
AU - Eccleston, Christopher
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - Objective: sTo analyze content and quality of headache, abdominal pain, and dysmenorrhoea websites, and to thematically analyze online pain forums. Methods: Websites offering support, advice, or information regarding pain were explored. Websites were analyzed quantitatively using the Health-Related Website Evaluation Form and the DISCERN scale. Websites containing forum functions were thematically analysed assessing how the Internet is used for support and advice. Results: 63 websites were included. Few websites scored in the upper quartiles of scores on the measures. 7 websites contained supportive posts, pertaining only to dysmenorrhoea. The ways users cope and the coping judgements of other forum users are presented thematically. 3 themes emerged: (1) passively engaged postings, (2) actively engaged postings, and (3) reactively engaged postings. Conclusions: Internet pain resources are of low quality and questionable value in providing help to adolescents. Future research should explore how to improve quality. © 2011 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved.
AB - Objective: sTo analyze content and quality of headache, abdominal pain, and dysmenorrhoea websites, and to thematically analyze online pain forums. Methods: Websites offering support, advice, or information regarding pain were explored. Websites were analyzed quantitatively using the Health-Related Website Evaluation Form and the DISCERN scale. Websites containing forum functions were thematically analysed assessing how the Internet is used for support and advice. Results: 63 websites were included. Few websites scored in the upper quartiles of scores on the measures. 7 websites contained supportive posts, pertaining only to dysmenorrhoea. The ways users cope and the coping judgements of other forum users are presented thematically. 3 themes emerged: (1) passively engaged postings, (2) actively engaged postings, and (3) reactively engaged postings. Conclusions: Internet pain resources are of low quality and questionable value in providing help to adolescents. Future research should explore how to improve quality. © 2011 The Author. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society of Pediatric Psychology. All rights reserved.
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UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsr100
U2 - 10.1093/jpepsy/jsr100
DO - 10.1093/jpepsy/jsr100
M3 - Article
SN - 0146-8693
VL - 37
SP - 262
EP - 271
JO - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
JF - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
IS - 3
ER -