Abstract

Background As parents and their children increasingly use Internet website to obtain information about Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS), a growing need to evaluate the content quality of websites is emerging. Bettany-Saltikov et al. and MacCulloch et al. have suggested some suitable requirements that websites on scoliosis should include. From these suggestions, we have created an instrument to quantify this suitability.

Highlights

  • As parents and their children increasingly use Internet website to obtain information about Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS), a growing need to evaluate the content quality of websites is emerging

  • Bettany-Saltikov et al and MacCulloch et al have suggested some suitable requirements that websites on scoliosis should include

  • To evaluate the quality of medical information, DISCERN tool was used in addition to Degree of suitability of information (DSI)

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As parents and their children increasingly use Internet website to obtain information about Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS), a growing need to evaluate the content quality of websites is emerging. Degree of suitability of information (DSI) for children with idiopathic scoliosis and their parents From 11th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities - SOSORT 2014 Annual Meeting Wiesbaden, Germany. Background As parents and their children increasingly use Internet website to obtain information about Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS), a growing need to evaluate the content quality of websites is emerging.

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