[Webliography of health for adolescents and young people]

Abstract

Aims: To identify health Websites in Spanish on adolescence and youth and to assess the adequacy of their codes of conduct.

Methods: Cross sectional study of the adequacy of codes of conduct, identified in the same way as young people tend to look on the Internet (search engines). Websites have been independently assessed using a questionnaire by 3 evaluators. Dimensions: 1) accountability, 2) transparency and honesty, 3) author, 4) editorial policy, 5) protection of personal data, 6) updating of information and accessibility. A descriptive analysis was performed and the kappa coefficient was estimated to assess the correlation between evaluators.

Results: A total of 66.7% of Websites had Spanish suppliers. There were 13 Websites (30.9%) with high compliance: Information for adolescents from the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (Spain), Health Center Manuel Merino Alcala de Henares (Spain), State Family Planning Federation (Spain), Webteens of the Generalitat Catalonia (Spain), Young Information Institutes Health (USA), Information on Female teenagers (USA), Information doctors and educators on type I diabetes (Spain), occupational asthma Portal (10 countries), teenage Information Puleva Group (Spain), Information bulimia and anorexia of the Community of Madrid (Spain), Health of adolescence PulsoMed, SA (Spain), American Association of Family Physicians (USA) and Information for young people from the Mapfre Health Fund (Spain). The worst dimension was updating of information (57.1% with low fullfilment) and protection of personal data, 21% with low fullfilment. The level of concordance between observers was considerable.

Conclusions: A list was obtained of websites with health information on adolescence and youth, with variability in adequacy in codes of conduct.