TABLE 3.

Information regarding medical treatment of 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
Medication treatments for IBD	3	3.7	0.82
Possible side effects of medication treatments	30	2.9	0.83
Surgical treatments that may be required for IBD	3	3.5	0.73
How to manage symptoms of IBD	7	2.7	0.69
How to adjust medications when symptoms cause problems	27	1.9	0.77
When to contact your doctor	20	2.7	0.80

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