Can ChatGPT provide quality information about fever in children?

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Emine Ozdemir Kacer1, Funda Ipekten2

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Aksaray University, Faculty of Medicine, Aksaray, Turkey.

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health
|October 29, 2024
PubMed

Insights

ChatGPT provides high-quality, reliable, and easy-to-understand answers to common children's fever questions. This artificial intelligence tool shows promise for improving pediatric health information accessibility.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatric Health
  • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Artificial intelligence (AI) systems offer significant potential for advancing medical care and addressing health challenges.
  • Fever is a prevalent health concern in children, necessitating reliable information for prediction and treatment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the quality and readability of ChatGPT's responses to frequently asked questions regarding childhood fever.
  • Assessing AI-driven health information for pediatric applications.

Main Methods:

  • Identified the 50 most frequently asked questions about fever in children.
  • Submitted these questions to ChatGPT and analyzed the responses using quality and readability assessment scales.
  • Utilized scales including Gunning Fog (GFOG), Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG), and Patient Education Material Evaluation Tool (PEMAT).

Main Results:

  • ChatGPT responses were found to be of good quality and demonstrated success on readability scales.
  • A weak positive correlation was observed between Gunning Fog (GFOG) and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook (SMOG) scores (r=0.379).
  • A significant positive relationship was found between Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level (FGL) and SMOG scores (r=0.899).

Conclusions:

  • AI tools like ChatGPT can provide high-quality, reliable, and understandable information on common pediatric issues such as fever.
  • The study highlights the potential of AI in presenting accessible and easy-to-read health information for parents and caregivers.
  • ChatGPT's responses to frequently asked questions about fever in children were deemed high-quality and understandable.
Abstract

Keywords:
ChatGPTchildrenfeverpaediatric

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