Table 4.
Quality of information websites (N=693).
| Item | n (%) | ||
| Quality criteria |
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Authoring informationa | 102 (82.9) | |
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Authors | 376 (54.3) | |
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Sources | 229 (33.0) | |
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Creation or update date | 467 (67.4) | |
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Privacy statement | 474 (68.4) | |
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Declaration of evidence | 360 (51.9) | |
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Marking of conflicts of interests | 211 (30.4) | |
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Consideration of target group | 643 (92.8) | |
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Evaluation of informationa | 99 (80.5) | |
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Review of informationa | 47 (38.2) | |
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Characteristics of the website (accessibility) |
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BITV-Test (barrier-free information technology regulation) | 0 (0.0) |
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Font size adjustable | 692 (99.9) |
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Consideration of persons with color vision deficiency in coloration | 396 (57.1) |
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User can have read out website’s content | 692 (99.9) |
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Main menu selectable without a mouse | 689 (99.4) |
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Information in simple language | 0 (0.0) |
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Newsletter | 120 (17.3) |
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Printed version | 218 (31.5) |
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Multimedia | 299 (43.1) |
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Imprint | 638 (92.1) | |
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Contact facility | 687 (99.1) | |
| Use of quality certificates |
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HONcode | 28 (4.0) | |
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Medisuch | 8 (1.2) | |
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Afgis | 7 (1.0) | |
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Stiftung Gesundheit | 0 (0.0) | |
a Based on the datasets from the 123 questionnaires that were filled out by the information supplier.