Table 8.

Importance of the integrated MEK-EDIPS tool in the health scenario.

Activities to be supported		Level of importance, n (%)
		A little important	Somewhat important	Important	Very important	Extremely important
For patients and relatives
	Obtaining information on the disease, additional understanding, and, consequently, better treatment	0 (0)	1 (6)	3 (17)	4 (22)	7 (39)
	Facilitating the interaction with people who are going through, or have gone through the same illness	0 (0)	0 (0)	4 (22)	4 (22)	7 (39)
	Improving the reliability of the information that they get. This is an expected result because the shared information is read and evaluated by a larger number of people (some of them could be specialists)	0 (0)	3 (17)	2 (11)	3 (17)	7 (39)
For health professionals
	Possibility to more easily expand their knowledge by obtaining additional scientific information, articles, results of experiments, and procedures provided by specialists in an area of interest	0 (0)	3 (17)	1 (6)	2 (11)	9 (50)
	Obtaining information that may help in the treatment, but that is usually omitted in consultations; for example, major doubts, unreliable data the patient may rely upon, reactions, beliefs, etc	0 (0)	1 (6)	3 (17)	2 (11)	9 (50)
For researchers
	Collecting information or results to help them create new hypotheses and do further research	0 (0)	1 (6)	4 (22)	2 (11)	8 (44)
For managers
	Improving the provision of health information based on the identification of the most interesting topics for patients and health professionals	0 (0)	1 (6)	4 (22)	2 (11)	8 (44)