Sexual Health Education: The Untapped and Unmeasured Potential of US-Based Websites

Autor/inn/en	Diez, Stephanie L.; Fava, Nicole M.; Fernandez, Sofia B.; Mendel, Whitney E.
Titel	Sexual Health Education: The Untapped and Unmeasured Potential of US-Based Websites
Quelle	In: Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 22 (2022) 3, S.335-347 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Diez, Stephanie L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1468-1811
DOI	10.1080/14681811.2021.1935227
Schlagwörter	Sexuality; Sex Education; Usability; Reliability; Information Sources; Web Sites; Nonprofit Organizations; Information Seeking; Health Education; Public Agencies; Databases; Health Behavior; Internet; Scores; Standards; Information Retrieval + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexualität; Sex instruction; Sexualaufklärung; Sexualerziehung; Sexualkunde; Reliabilität; Information source; Informationsquelle; Web-Design; Nonprofit-Organisation; Informationserschließung; Gesundheitsaufklärung; Gesundheitsbildung; Gesundheitserziehung; Öffentliche Einrichtung; Datenbank; Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Standard
Abstract	With the exponential growth of online information seeking by young people, it is imperative for health and sexual health educators to consider online information a resource young people will pursue. Access to accurate and comprehensive sexual health information is important, yet there is a scarcity of research evaluating the quality of this information. Using youth-direct search terms, this study examined the quality of online information accessed with respect to usability and reliability. The top three US-based websites with the highest return rates were the US Centers for Disease Control, Planned Parenthood, and WebMD. Each of these websites was assessed using the Health Information Website Quality Assessment (HIWQA) to examine the quality of sexual health information provided. Results indicated that the reliability of sexual health information was highest on the CDC website while usability was highest on the Planned Parenthood and WebMD websites. These findings signal the variability of website quality and stress the need for websites that have both high usability and reliability when providing sexual health information. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01