Web Validity Assignment –
Instructions
Purpose of the assignment: evaluate 2 professional and/or consumer health websites.
According to recent studies, due to its accessibility and “easiness” patients are using the Internet as the second source of health information after physicians, (HON, 2014). In light of this, it is important that nurses are able to identify reliable, accurate online sources for health teaching their clients or when referring clients to resources for further information.
The Health on the Net (HON) Foundation has developed a code of conduct to standardize the reliability of health information. The HON code defines a set of eight (8) principles to maintain basic ethical standards. These include: Authorative, Complementarity, Privacy, Attribution, Justifiability, Transparency, Financial Disclosure and Advertising Policy. The definitions of these terms can be found at Health on the Net Guidelines
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Students are required to choose a specific health related topic and then research it using two (2) websites of their choice.
Choose a topic that interests you from the following; Post Partum Depression, Thyroid Cancer, Meningitis, Depression, Congestive Heart Failure, Asthma, Diabetes
• Use the template provided, as instructed. The form will expand to contain as much information as you wish to put in your information
• Research each of the websites to identify the eight HON principles. A title page and reference page is required with this assignment and is included with the template.
• Answer the questions in the table as instructed on the form.
• The answer to Question #3 must include a proper APA citation of the textbook in Texidium and identification of your websites you used to compare the website information. There are resources to assist you with properly formatting the APA citation.
• The last question is NOT about the topic that you selected, it is about using the internet to locate valid websites and applying it with evidence to nursing practice. Take this into consideration when constructing your answer to the final question.
• When complete, submit your work in the assignment box on eConestoga.
• At 11:59 PM on the DUE date.
• Only certain files are acceptable to assignment drop box. Acceptable for this assignment is MS Word,. If you are using Mac (Apple) software it is your responsibility to convert your assignment to an acceptable format.
This assignment is worth 20% of the final course grade. Please review the rubric prior to beginning this assignment, as it will be graded according to this rubric.
Learning Outcomes: After completing this assignment the student will be able to:
4 Information Literacy
◦ Examines and compares information from various sources in order to evaluate reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and point of view or bias.
◦ Evaluate the validity and reliability of websites providing health information.
◦ Explain how knowledge of web validity can enhance patient health and health literacy.
References
Health on the Net Foundation. (2019). The HON code of conduct for medical and health web sites (HON code). https://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Pro/Conduct.html
Ofcom. (2015). Children and parents: Media use and attitudes report 2015. http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/research-publications/childrens/children-parents-nov-
