| Author/Editor | Car, Josip; Lang, Britta; Colledge, Anthea; Ung, Chuin; Majeed, Azeem | |
| Title | Interventions for enhancing consumers' online health literacy | |
| Type | članek | |
| Source | Cochrane Database Syst Rev Online | |
| Vol. and No. | , št. 6 | |
| Publication year | 2011 | |
| Volume | str. 1-52, CD007092 | |
| Language | eng | |
| Abstract | Background: Access to health information is critical to enable consumers to participate in decisions on health. Increasingly, such information is accessed via the internet, but a number of barriers prevent consumers making effective use of it. These barriers include inadequate skills to search, evaluate and use the information. It has not yet been demonstrated whether training consumers to use the internet for health information can result in positive health outcomes. OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of interventions for enhancing consumers' online health literacy (skills to search, evaluate and use online health information). Search strategy: We searched: the Cochrane Consumers and Communication Review Group Specialised Register; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL, The Cochrane Library, Issue 1 2008); MEDLINE (Ovid); EMBASE (Ovid); CINAHL (Dialog); ERIC (CSA Illumina); LISA (CSA Illumina); PsycINFO (Ovid); Index to scientific and technical proceedings; SIGLE; ASLIB Index to Theses; ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts; National Research Register/UK CRN Portfolio database; Current Controlled Trials - MetaRegister of Controlled Trials. We searched all databases for the period January 1990 to March 2008. Selection criteria: Randomised controlled trials (RCTs), cluster RCTs and associated economic evaluations, quasi-RCTs, interrupted time series analyses, and controlled before and after (CBA) studies assessing interventions to enhance consumers' online health literacy, in any language. Data collection and analysis: Two review authors independently selected studies for inclusion, assessed their quality and extracted data. We contacted study authors for clarification and to seek missing data. We presented results as a narrative and tabular summary, and calculated mean differences where appropriate. (Abs. trunc. at 2000 ch.) | |
| Descriptors | COMPUTER LITERACY ADULT CONSUMER PARTICIPATION |