Giselle Ferreira de Souza, Eduarda Maia Lima, Ana Clara Muniz Tavares, Camila Alves Rocha, Larissa Cruz de Souza, Júlia Machado Luz Simões, Nicole Oliveira de Araújo, Maria Yzadora Moura Martins, Marcelo Borges Cavalcante
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Abstract
Objective: To access to reproductive health information on the Internet helps patients understand their infertility journey and make decisions about their treatment. This study aimed to evaluate the quality of fertility clinic websites accredited by the Latin American Network for Assisted Reproduction (REDLARA) using the QUality Evaluation Scoring Tool (QUEST).
Methods: This observational, cross-sectional, and online study evaluated the clinic websites registered as accredited centers on the REDLARA website. The QUEST was used for the quality assessment of the websites. Data were collected from the available websites of all accredited fertility clinics between September 2023 and January 2024.
Results: A total of 173 websites from fertility clinics accredited by REDLARA were evaluated, and 152 (87.8%) clinics had functioning websites. The majority of analyzed websites were from Brazilian fertility clinics (n=58; 38.1%), followed by Mexican (n=23; 15.1%) and Argentine (n=21; 13.8%). No indication of authorship or username was observed on most websites. Some form of support for the patient-physician relationship was reported by 86.8% of websites. The mean (standard deviation±SD) of the total score obtained by all fertility clinics was 12.73±4.7 (range: 1-26). Brazil had the highest total score (mean±SD=16.03±4.6), whereas Peru had the lowest (6.42±1.7). Statistical analysis revealed a difference in the quality of websites among Latin American countries.
Conclusions: The health information disseminated by fertility clinic websites in Latin America is of poor quality. Therefore, REDLARA should implement rules for building good-quality websites.
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