🔎 Do you often search for symptoms or medications online?
A new CSP article investigates how adults in the South and Midwest regions of Brazil search for health information online and what difficulties they face in this process.
Among the 1,181 participants, 92.3% had internet access, and of those, 77.1% used it to search for health information. The most searched topics were symptoms (89.1%) and medications (84.5%), mainly on search engines like Google (94.6%) and YouTube (41.7%).
Although most reported ease in finding content, almost half (44.8%) indicated difficulty in assessing the reliability of the information, and 25.9% had difficulty applying it to their own health decisions.
📍Check it out: https://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/ojs/index.php/csp/article/view/10130