title: Handling Internet-Based Health Information: Improving Health Information Web Site Literacy Among Undergraduate Nursing Students.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Patient care problems arise when health care consumers and professionals find health information on the Internet because that information is often inaccurate. To mitigate this problem, nurses can develop Web literacy and share that skill with health care consumers. This study evaluated a Web-literacy intervention for undergraduate nursing students to find reliable Web-based health information.
  
  
  METHODS
  A pre- and postsurvey queried undergraduate nursing students in an informatics course; the intervention comprised lecture, in-class practice, and assignments about health Web site evaluation tools. Data were analyzed using Wilcoxon and ANOVA signed-rank tests.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Pre-intervention, 75.9% of participants reported using Web sites to obtain health information. Postintervention, 87.9% displayed confidence in using an evaluation tool. Both the ability to critique health Web sites (p = .005) and confidence in finding reliable Internet-based health information (p = .058) increased.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Web-literacy education guides nursing students to find, evaluate, and use reliable Web sites, which improves their ability to deliver safer patient care. [J Nurs Educ. 2017;56(2):110-114.].
authors.forename: Weiwen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Alice M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Mulvehill
authors.forename: Courtney C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Gilson
authors.forename: Linda L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D003197:Computer Literacy; D003200:Computer User Training / Q000379:methods*; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D057566:Self Report; D013338:Students, Nursing