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Internet use by pregnant women seeking pregnancy-related information: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, March 2016
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Title
Internet use by pregnant women seeking pregnancy-related information: a systematic review
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12884-016-0856-5
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Authors

Padaphet Sayakhot, Mary Carolan-Olah

Abstract

The Internet has become one of the most popular sources of information for health consumers and pregnant women are no exception. The primary objective of this review was to investigate the ways in which pregnant women used the Internet to retrieve pregnancy-related information. We conducted a systematic review to answer this question. In November 2014, electronic databases: Scopus, Medline, PreMEDLINE, EMBASE, CINAHL and PubMed were searched for papers with the terms "Internet"; "pregnancy"; "health information seeking", in the title, abstract or as keywords. Restrictions were placed on publication to within 10 years and language of publication was restricted to English. Quantitative studies were sought, that reported original research and described Internet use by pregnant women. Seven publications met inclusion criteria and were included in the review. Sample size ranged from 182 - 1347 pregnant women. The majority of papers reported that women used the Internet as a source of information about pregnancy. Most women searched for information at least once a month. Fetal development and nutrition in pregnancy were the most often mentioned topics of interest. One paper included in this review found that women with higher education were three times more likely to seek advice than women with less than a high school education, and also that single and multiparous women were less likely to seek advice than married and nulliparous women. The majority of women found health information on the Internet to be reliable and useful. Most women did not discuss the information they retrieved from the Internet with their health providers. Thus, health providers may not be aware of potentially inaccurate information or mistaken beliefs about pregnancy, reported on the Internet. Future research is needed to address this issue of potentially unreliable information.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Unknown 377 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 48 13%
Student > Bachelor 44 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 39 10%
Researcher 27 7%
Lecturer 20 5%
Other 77 20%
Unknown 124 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 77 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 50 13%
Social Sciences 25 7%
Psychology 18 5%
Computer Science 12 3%
Other 57 15%
Unknown 140 37%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 52. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 January 2020.
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#805,528
of 25,299,129 outputs
Outputs from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#142
of 4,741 outputs
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#14,231
of 308,110 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
#6
of 55 outputs
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