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The Quality and Reliability of Online Videos as an Information Source of Public Health Education for Stroke Prevention in Mainland China: Electronic Media–Based Cross-Sectional Study

The Quality and Reliability of Online Videos as an Information Source of Public Health Education for Stroke Prevention in Mainland China: Electronic Media–Based Cross-Sectional Study

Future research could benefit from a more systematic analysis of how platform-level governance affects the credibility and visibility of online health communication. Despite these findings, several limitations of this study should be acknowledged. First and most importantly, our research team retrieved and analyzed only Chinese-language videos targeting Chinese audiences, using a limited set of search keywords.

Rongguang Ge, Haoyi Dai, Chicheng Gong, Yuhong Xia, Rui Wang, Jiaping Xu, Shoujiang You, Yongjun Cao

JMIR Infodemiology 2025;5:e64891

A Multimodal Analysis of Online Information Foraging in Health-Related Topics Based on Stimulus-Engagement Alignment: Observational Feasibility Study

A Multimodal Analysis of Online Information Foraging in Health-Related Topics Based on Stimulus-Engagement Alignment: Observational Feasibility Study

The evaluation of the quality of encountered content often focuses on the credibility or trustworthiness of information, which is understood as perspectival to the user and not an innate feature of information. Yet, credibility is commonly thought to be influenced by cues that surround the presentation of information [20].

Szilvia Zörgő, Gjalt-Jorn Peters, Anna Jeney, Szilárd Dávid Kovács, Rik Crutzen

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e64901

The Influence of Medical Expertise and Information Search Skills on Medical Information Searching: Comparative Analysis From a Free Data Set

The Influence of Medical Expertise and Information Search Skills on Medical Information Searching: Comparative Analysis From a Free Data Set

The quality of medical-related information can be assessed according to 2 dimensions: (1) The credibility of sources, which refers to the degree of trustworthiness associated with the information and its origin [24-27]. This includes evaluations of accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage [26,28].

Aline Chevalier, Cheyenne Dosso

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e62754

Exploring the Credibility of Large Language Models for Mental Health Support: Protocol for a Scoping Review

Exploring the Credibility of Large Language Models for Mental Health Support: Protocol for a Scoping Review

It will try to add more consistent factors that can account for the credibility of LLMs. There is now a growing body of research on using LLMs for mental health care provision [8]. However, it is worth noting that there are very few to almost no studies on the credibility of LLMs, particularly in medicine [9,10] and mental health support. This review intends to address this gap.

Dipak Gautam, Philipp Kellmeyer

JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e62865

Medical Misinformation in Polish on the World Wide Web During the COVID-19 Pandemic Period: Infodemiology Study

Medical Misinformation in Polish on the World Wide Web During the COVID-19 Pandemic Period: Infodemiology Study

Subsequently, a team of experienced clinicians assessed the credibility of these sources, adhering to the principles of evidence-based medicine. This methodology enabled us to pinpoint crucial areas for enhancing interventions aimed at curbing the dissemination of noncredible online health information.

Małgorzata Chlabicz, Aleksandra Nabożny, Jolanta Koszelew, Wojciech Łaguna, Anna Szpakowicz, Paweł Sowa, Wojciech Budny, Katarzyna Guziejko, Magdalena Róg-Makal, Sławomir Pancewicz, Maciej Kondrusik, Piotr Czupryna, Beata Cudowska, Dariusz Lebensztejn, Anna Moniuszko-Malinowska, Adam Wierzbicki, Karol A Kamiński

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e48130

Parents’ User Experience Accessing and Using a Web-Based Map of COVID-19 Recommendations for Health Decision-Making: Qualitative Descriptive Study

Parents’ User Experience Accessing and Using a Web-Based Map of COVID-19 Recommendations for Health Decision-Making: Qualitative Descriptive Study

The overall aim of the Rec Map is to identify and collate all COVID-19 guidelines, assess the credibility and trustworthiness of the recommendations, and make the recommendations understandable to various stakeholder groups.

Samantha Cyrkot, Lisa Hartling, Shannon D Scott, Sarah A Elliott

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e53593

Arabic Web-Based Information on Oral Lichen Planus: Content Analysis

Arabic Web-Based Information on Oral Lichen Planus: Content Analysis

The HON tool evaluates the reliability and credibility of health websites. HON asks reviewers to evaluate a given web page regarding eight sections: authority, complementarity, confidentiality, attribution, justifiability, transparency, financial disclosure, and advertising policy [30]. The reviewer will score each item from 0% (did not fulfill the specific item) to 100% (total fulfillment of that item), while the HON final score is an average of scores across the eight items.

Azzam AlMeshrafi, Arwa F AlHamad, Hamoud AlKuraidees, Lubna A AlNasser

JMIR Form Res 2024;8:e49198

Characterizing Precision Nutrition Discourse on Twitter: Quantitative Content Analysis

Characterizing Precision Nutrition Discourse on Twitter: Quantitative Content Analysis

Do information characteristics such as credibility, benefit framing, citation of sources, association with products, and community engagement metrics vary by topic? Who is involved in these discussions—what types of expertise are evident among the communicators? Are these expertise types associated with variations in the information characteristics and topics? How often do communications contain potentially misleading or false information?

Sapna Batheja, Emma M Schopp, Samantha Pappas, Siri Ravuri, Susan Persky

J Med Internet Res 2023;25:e43701