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  • Health Communication
  • Palliative Care Research
  • Digital Health Literacy

Background:

  • The internet is a primary source for health information.
  • Palliative care information online is increasingly sought by the public.
  • Assessing the quality and comprehensiveness of online health content is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the content breadth of online palliative care information pages.
  • To compare the frequency of palliative care facts on web pages with expert-ranked importance.
  • To identify discrepancies in online palliative care information coverage.

Main Methods:

  • Content analysis of 26 selected palliative care web pages.
  • Independent coding of web page content by two researchers.
  • Importance ratings of palliative care content domains by 20 palliative care professionals.

Main Results:

  • 22 broad palliative care concepts were identified across the analyzed pages.
  • Web pages covered an average of 9.2 concepts, with significant variation.
  • A moderate discrepancy (rτ = .25, P > .05) was found between expert importance ratings and content frequency.

Conclusions:

  • Online palliative care resources exhibit considerable variability in content.
  • Essential information, as deemed by experts, is not consistently present online.
  • Guidelines were created to ensure more consistent and comprehensive consumer education on palliative care.