PAUSE for Your Health: A New End-User Tool for Evaluating Consumer Health News and Online Resources

Q2 Social Sciences

Reference Librarian Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI:10.1080/02763877.2023.2276934

Christina J. Steffy, Bradley A. Long

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Abstract

ABSTRACTSociety is in the midst of an infodemic – an overwhelming amount of inaccurate health information is circulating online. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the infodemic which was already fueled by the general mistrust of traditional credible sources, particularly the media and health professionals. ChatGPT is further upending the information landscape. Librarians are trusted professionals who can help ease the impacts of the infodemic, however we need a simple yet not overly simplified consumer health evaluation tool to help us teach people how to evaluate health information in their daily lives. The authors present the “PAUSE for Your Health” tool designed specifically for this purpose. The tool combines the simplicity of a checklist with the robust critical thinking of a framework to encourage end-users to pause, consider attributes of the source, and then decide if this source is beneficial to their health before following the advice or sharing the information.KEYWORDS: Information literacyconsumer health newswebsite evaluationreferencemisinformation management Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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暂停为您的健康:一个新的终端用户工具，用于评估消费者健康新闻和在线资源

摘要社会正处于信息大流行之中，大量不准确的健康信息在网上传播。对传统可靠来源，特别是媒体和卫生专业人员的普遍不信任已经加剧了COVID-19大流行的信息流行。ChatGPT正在进一步颠覆信息格局。图书馆员是值得信赖的专业人士，他们可以帮助缓解信息大流行的影响，但我们需要一个简单而不是过于简化的消费者健康评估工具来帮助我们教人们如何在日常生活中评估健康信息。作者提出了专门为此目的而设计的“为你的健康暂停”工具。该工具将清单的简单性与框架的强大批判性思维相结合，鼓励最终用户停下来，考虑来源的属性，然后在遵循建议或共享信息之前决定该来源是否有益于他们的健康。关键词:信息素养消费者健康新闻网站评价参考文献信息管理披露声明作者未发现潜在利益冲突。

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