Qualitative study of unstructured information related to early childhood caries found on websites

• Grant number: 18/18452-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): March 01, 2019
• Effective date (End): December 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Dentistry - Pediatric Dentistry
• Principal Investigator: Thiago Cruvinel da Silva
• Grantee: Isabelle Anibal Oliveira dos Santos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru (FOB). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Bauru , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Dental caries still represents a major challenge in public health. However, the identification of individual risk factors, parental counseling and health promotion have played an important role in prevention of disease. The Internet has become the most popular medium for obtaining health related information. Users' activities are recorded and compiled into "Big Data" files, which can be analyzed to determine the behavior of the Internet users against a specific disease. In this sense, the present study aims to analyze the quality of unstructured information related to early childhood caries (ICC) found on the Internet, described in the languages Portuguese, English and Spanish. The proposed methodology will be applied through the analysis of the quality of information written on the CPI available on websites, using the DISCERN and JAMA benchmark instruments. The statistical analysis will be conducted according to the normality and homogeneity of the data. Values of P <0.05 will be considered for significant differences.