英语维基百科的男性和女性医疗内容质量:定量内容分析
Nuša Farič1,2, Henry Ww Potts3, James M Heilman4
1School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Journal of medical Internet research
|September 12, 2024
概括
这项研究分析了1000篇受欢迎的维基百科健康文章,发现大多数都不是性别特定的. 虽然女性健康主题比男性主题更受关注,但两者质量都与医学教科书相美.
科学领域:
- 医疗信息学 医疗信息学
- 在线健康信息 在线健康信息
- 内容分析 内容分析
背景情况:
- 维基百科是全球领先的健康信息资源,其医学文章每年有近16亿次浏览.
- 在维基百科的广泛医学内容中,人们对生物性别表现的平衡存在担忧.
- 这项研究解决了评估维基百科上性别特异性内容分布的需要.
研究的目的:
- 根据性别相关性和质量对1000个阅读最多的英语维基百科健康文章进行分类.
- 将维基百科文章的基于性别的内容分布与传统医学教科书进行比较.
- 评估维基百科上的性别健康信息的整体质量和特征.
主要方法:
- 使用维基项目医学热门页面识别了前1000篇健康文章.
- 根据13个因素分析文章,包括观点,质量和参考文献.
- 将文章分类为五个特定性别的相关性标准 (仅限女性至仅限男性).
- 比较维基百科的文章与两本一般医学教科书的传播.
主要成果:
- 93.3%的文章没有性别特异性;只有6.7%的文章是性别特异性的.
- 女性主题的报道率 (5%) 超过男性主题的报道率 (1.7%),反映了教科书的内容.
- 与男性类文章相比,女性类文章的重要性排名和参考数量更高.
结论:
- 人气维基百科的健康文章在两性之间显示了可比的质量.
- 比起传统的医学教科书,维基百科呈现出更高比例的中立文章和更少的针对女性的文章.
- 观察到的内容分布可能反映了读者模式和人口健康信息消费.
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