Medizinische Universität Graz - Research portal
Selected Publication:
SHR Neuro Cancer Cardio Lipid Metab Microb
Weissenberger, C; Jonassen, S; Beranek-Chiu, J; Neumann, M; Muller, D; Bartelt, S; Schulz, S; Monting, JS; Henne, K; Gitsch, G; Witucki, G.
Breast cancer: patient information needs reflected in English and German web sites.
Br J Cancer. 2004; 91(8):1482-1487
Doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602168
[OPEN ACCESS]
Web of Science
PubMed
FullText
FullText_MUG
Google Scholar
- Co-authors Med Uni Graz
- Schulz Stefan
- Altmetrics:
- Dimensions Citations:
- Plum Analytics:
- Scite (citation analytics):
- Abstract:
- Individual belief and knowledge about cancer were shown to influence coping and compliance of patients. Supposing that the Internet information both has impact on patients and reflects patients' information needs, breast cancer web sites in English and German language were evaluated to assess the information quality and were compared with each other to identify intercultural differences. Search engines returned 10 616 hits related to breast cancer. Of these, 4590 relevant hits were analysed. In all, 1888 web pages belonged to 132 English-language web sites and 2702 to 65 German-language web sites. Results showed that palliative therapy (4.5 vs 16.7%; P=0.004), alternative medicine (18.2 vs 46.2%; P<0.001), and disease-related information (prognosis, cancer aftercare, self-help groups, and epidemiology) were significantly more often found on German-language web sites. Therapy-related information (including the side effects of therapy and new studies) was significantly more often given by English-language web sites: for example, details about surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, hormone therapy, immune therapy, and stem cell transplantation. In conclusion, our results have implications for patient education by physicians and may help to improve patient support by tailoring information, considering the weak points in information provision by web sites and intercultural differences in patient needs.
- Find related publications in this database (using NLM MeSH Indexing)
- Breast Neoplasms - diagnosis Breast Neoplasms - psychology Breast Neoplasms - therapy
- Breast Neoplasms -
- Female -
- Female -
- Health Education - standards
- Humans -
- Information Services - standards Information Services - trends
- Internet - standards Internet - trends
- Language -
- Medical Informatics -
- Natural Language Processing -
- Find related publications in this database (Keywords)
- breast neoplasms
- internet
- quality assurance, health care
- information services/*standards/utilisation
- internet/*standards/utilisation
- complementary therapies