Tailored Internet Information Supply for Patients - Part 2

Quality of Self-Diagnosis by Headache Patients Getting Tailored Internet Information - Part 2

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00921453

Enrollment

140

Registered

2009-06-16

Start date

2009-04-30

Completion date

2009-04-30

Last updated

2009-06-16

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Conditions

Headaches

Keywords

Internet, Information supply, Tailoring, Patient empowerment, Headaches, Meta-search, Consumer Health Information, Information Services, Information Storage and Retrieval, Information Systems

Brief summary

Medical expert systems in combination with portal searching meta-search engines are exploited to provide reliable patient-tailored information. A prototype of a web-based information system has been developed and is to be evaluated. Its aim is to answer the decisive question whether expert system guided internet meta-search provides a better information supply for patients seeking health information online then this is possible by using ordinary search engines or health portals. The research does neither investigate the influence of ethical nor legal aspects of internet health information supply.

Detailed description

The study is a follow-up of NCT00746408. It has been conducted because for the first study still not enough participants have been recruited. The study took part at Bamberg University in Germany with 140 participants.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* can use a computer * can surf the internet

Exclusion criteria

* is a medical expert

Countries

Germany

Outcome results