The study aimed to evaluate the quality and readability of diabetes-related online health information.

Objective: The objective of our study was to evaluate the quality and readability of diabetes-related online health information
Duration: 4 months
Methods: Evaluation Study

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Overall DISCERN score (out of 80) for 37 websites was 49.40 ± 5.83 denoting ‘fair’ quality of information. The .org websites were of good quality (52.2 ± 5.82). Out of the selected websites, sixteen websites had a good quality of information. Out of the 37 selected websites, only 14 (37.84%) of the websites were HONcode quality label.

LIC, University of Delhi, Delhi