Table 5.
Websites and media are used for searching online health information.
| WHERE DO YOU SEARCH FOR HEALTH INFORMATION ONLINE? | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Very Often | Often | Sometimes | Rarely | Never | ||
| Website of the Ministry of Health | Number of answers given by respondents | 21 | 30 | 59 | 70 | 29 |
| Percentage | 10% | 14% | 28% | 33% | 14% | |
| Website of the region | Number of answers given by respondents | 7 | 36 | 51 | 71 | 44 |
| Percentage | 3% | 17% | 24% | 34% | 21% | |
| Website of the local health authority | Number of answers given by respondents | 9 | 23 | 57 | 64 | 56 |
| Percentage | 4% | 11% | 27% | 31% | 27% | |
| Websites of other entities of the National Health System | Number of answers given by respondents | 15 | 38 | 65 | 59 | 32 |
| Percentage | 7% | 18% | 31% | 28% | 15% | |
| Websites of associations of patients with specific pathologies | Number of answers given by respondents | 8 | 16 | 40 | 69 | 76 |
| Percentage | 4% | 8% | 19% | 33% | 36% | |
| Websites of pharmaceutical companies | Number of answers given by respondents | 1 | 7 | 27 | 72 | 102 |
| Percentage | 0% | 3% | 13% | 34% | 49% | |
| Wikipedia | Number of answers given by respondents | 7 | 21 | 52 | 72 | 57 |
| Percentage | 3% | 10% | 25% | 34% | 27% | |
| Online forums on specific diseases | Number of answers given by respondents | 5 | 23 | 52 | 66 | 63 |
| Percentage | 2% | 11% | 25% | 32% | 30% | |
| Online medical journals | Number of answers given by respondents | 15 | 23 | 69 | 53 | 49 |
| Percentage | 7% | 11% | 33% | 25% | 23% | |