Networked health information on diabetes: layer analysis / 中华健康管理学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective Networked health information on diabetes updated by some websites was evaluated to provide evidence for its improvement.Methods Twenty-four domestic diabetes-related websites were identified,and primary index (media index,health information index and diabetes information index) and secondary index (practicability index and novelty index) were evaluated by using hierarchal analysis method.Results Of three primary index,compared with media and health information index,diabetes information index showed higher scores.Moreover,health information and diabetes information had strong causality.For the secondary index,practicability and novelty got relatively lower scores.The website Diabetic Club and Health for All got the highest (3.2) and the slowest scores (1.7),respectively.Conclusion At present,domestic diabetes-related websites may be far from satisfaction and need improvement in technology and human resources and more inputs.