TABLE 2.

Medical information regarding inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): Amount of information on each topic across the websites evaluated

Information topic	Proportion of websites with no information (n=30), %	Information score, mean	Intraclass correlation coefficient comparing two raters
Common symptoms of IBD	0	3.4	0.50
Complications that may arise from IBD	7	3.3	0.86
What is known (or not known) about the causes IBD	0	3.6	0.80
Long-term prognosis/outcome of IBD	7	2.8	0.72
Risk of developing cancer	27	2.7	0.91
How IBD or the medications used may affect fertility	57	2.0	0.78
The risk that children of persons with IBD have of developing IBD	20	2.6	0.86

The information score is based on a five-point rating scale ranging from 1 (no information), to 3 (adequate information with basic detail), to 5 (complete and comprehensive information with detailed discussion). All correlations were statistically significant at P<0.01