Özet:

Today, the internet is the most important shared source that patients and their relatives use to get information about their health problems. Considering that the presentations related to diseases prepared on this platform are read for information by non-health workers, the basic rule should be that the presentations are prepared taking into account the level of education of individuals. The readability concept is a numerical data developed over the past 20 years to measure the readability and availability levels of texts. The aim of our study is to assess the scales of readability and content accuracy of information texts scanned in the internet search engines on lymphodem, regardless of the ethology. In the first 10 pages of the Google search engine’s search using the keyword “lenfödem”, a total of 300 websites have been scanned and evaluated. Chats, forums, news and commercial blog sites and sites containing less than 20 sentences have been deactivated. The content of the sites was transferred to the Microsoft Word program and calculated the average with the total number of phrases, words and letters, the average number of words, 3 letters and more. Average readability levels were analyzed using firewall and Bezirci-Yılmaz readability formulas. The content of the text was also assessed in terms of information levels. After the exclusion criteria were applied to 300 websites scaned by the keyword "lenfödem" in the Google search engine, the repeated sites were also excluded and 28 target sites were identified. The information text of all these websites was calculated as the average readability levels according to the Ateşman formula 58.81(SD: 10.88), according to the Bezirci-Yılmaz formula 11.47(SD:3.48) . In this case, the data obtained according to the Fireman formula was considered to be in middle difficulty, and according to the Bezirci-Yılmaz formula, the high school level educated persons could understand as in difficulty. The majority of the texts contain information about lymphodema treatments; the information about the definition and etiology, protective measures and complications has been found less in the text. On the internet sites, the level of readability in the information texts for lymphodema patients is assessed by integrating in the educational system in Turkey in the middle difficulty and 11-12. The class is at the level of literature. Published information texts on lymphodema are suitable for the target audience in terms of readability, but when considered as content, it turns out that information on protective measures should be revised in particular. It is necessary to emphasize the need for the relevant health organizations and health institutions to work together in order to make these revisions possible.

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