title: Internet sites offering adolescents help with headache, abdominal pain, and dysmenorrhoea: a description of content, quality, and peer interactions.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze content and quality of headache, abdominal pain, and dysmenorrhoea websites, and to thematically analyze online pain forums.
  
  
  METHODS
  Websites offering support, advice, or information regarding pain were explored. Websites were analyzed quantitatively using the Health-Related Website Evaluation Form and the DISCERN scale. Websites containing forum functions were thematically analysed assessing how the Internet is used for support and advice.
  
  
  RESULTS
  63 websites were included. Few websites scored in the upper quartiles of scores on the measures. 7 websites contained supportive posts, pertaining only to dysmenorrhoea. The ways users cope and the coping judgements of other forum users are presented thematically. 3 themes emerged: (1) passively engaged postings, (2) actively engaged postings, and (3) reactively engaged postings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Internet pain resources are of low quality and questionable value in providing help to adolescents. Future research should explore how to improve quality.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Pain Research, The University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK.
authors.forename: Ellen M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.forename: Benjamin A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Rosser
authors.forename: Edmund
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Keogh
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Eccleston
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000628:therapy; D000293:Adolescent; D004412:Dysmenorrhea / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006261:Headache / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet / Q000592:standards; D008297:Male; D061108:Social Media / Q000592:standards