Information and Misinformation Online: Recommendations for Facilitating Accurate Mental Health Information Retrieval and Evaluation*. Morahan-Martin, J. & Anderson, C. D. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, 3(5):731–746, October, 2000. 731
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The Internet is quickly becoming a preferred place to find information. Once people learn the basics of search engines, they can locate information on highly esoteric topics from millions of pages on the web. Retrieving information online is convenient, fast, and can allow access to information that otherwise might not be available because of geographic or other limitations. Finding information is one of the most frequent reasons individuals use the Internet and one of the most highly valued aspects of the Internet among users. Information found online both supplements and replaces traditional sources of information. Every day, 6 million people in the United States go online in search of health and medical information, with an estimated 50 million people in the United States ever having gone online for medical information. However, the quality of available online information varies considerably. The Internet is unregulated, and although there are excellent sites online, there are many sites with misinform...
@article{morahan-martin_information_2000,
	title = {Information and {Misinformation} {Online}: {Recommendations} for {Facilitating} {Accurate} {Mental} {Health} {Information} {Retrieval} and {Evaluation}*},
	volume = {3},
	doi = {10/c65m9n},
	abstract = {The Internet is quickly becoming a preferred place to find information. Once people learn the basics of search engines, they can locate information on highly esoteric topics from millions of pages on the web. Retrieving information online is convenient, fast, and can allow access to information that otherwise might not be available because of geographic or other limitations. Finding information is one of the most frequent reasons individuals use the Internet and one of the most highly valued aspects of the Internet among users. Information found online both supplements and replaces traditional sources of information. Every day, 6 million people in the United States go online in search of health and medical information, with an estimated 50 million people in the United States ever having gone online for medical information. However, the quality of available online information varies considerably. The Internet is unregulated, and although there are excellent sites online, there are many sites with misinform...},
	number = {5},
	journal = {Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking},
	author = {Morahan-Martin, Janet and Anderson, Colleen D.},
	month = oct,
	year = {2000},
	note = {731},
	pages = {731--746},
}

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