Assignment Description
Week 5 Assignment
Consumer Health Information Website Analysis
The purpose of this assignment is to apply knowledge of reliable and valid information sources
to patient education in clinical nursing practice and to evaluate patient educational materials
posted on the internet.
The assignment for this week consists of 3-5 pages paper evaluating consumer/patient health
information on the web. You will be required to find a website that is designed to provide health
information to the consumer/patient and analyze it according to the criteria described below. You
are required to report your analysis in a formal course paper.
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Choose a health topic/issue in which you want to educate your patient/consumer/family
about (diabetes, heart failure, teenage pregnancy, depression, etc…) and briefly describe
in your paper :
➢ An explanation of your health topic/issue and why you selected it (Significance of
the topic/issue selected).
Find an internet source that is designed to provide information/education about your
selected health topic/issue and analyze the following:
➢ describe the website (main title, information)
➢ describe the overall impression about the design of the website (organization,
easiness of finding information, easiness to read, table of content/index, colors,
font, does it look professional).
➢ Who is sponsoring the website?
➢ How often is the site updated? When was the site created? Was it updated
recently?
➢ Does it state that the content is not medical advice?
➢ Who is the intended audience? Does the site have a clear target audience? is the
information presented appropriate to the target population?
How credible are the information presented:
➢ Is there any evidence that the author of the web information has some authority in
the field about which she or he is providing information? Who is responsible for
the information? What are the author's credentials? Is a mechanism in place for
you to contact the author?
➢ Are there clues that the author/s are biased? For example, is he/she selling or
promoting a product? Is the author taking a personal stand on a social/political
issue or is the author being objective ? Bias is not necessarily "bad," but the
connections should be clear.
➢ Does the information have a complete list of works cited, which reference
credible, authoritative sources? Is the information valid and supported by
evidence? Are omissions noted? Is the author's point of view objective and
unbiased?
➢ Are the information accurate? any inconsistencies, inaccuracies, errors, false
information, etc…
➢ Are there links that point to additional, valuable resources with minimum effort?
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Adequacy:
➢ Over all, does the site provide consumer/patient education? is the education
adequate or does the consumer have to go somewhere else to find answers about
the topic?
Sophistication of the information:
➢ Is this source too elementary, too technical, too advanced, or just right?
➢ Is the purpose of the site clearly stated? Does the site match its purpose? Is the
site intended to educate or sell?
Submit a 3-5 pages analysis paper following APA format (include title page, running
head, introduction, headings, Summary paragraph, reference page, in-text citation). You
need to include at least 5 reliable references of which at least 3 journal articles.
For assistance in completing this assignment review chapters 17 & 18 in your McGonigle text and visit
the following two websites: https://www.mlanet.org/resources/userguide.html and
http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/web-eval-sites.htm
Grading Criteria
Week 5 Assignment
Consumer Health Information Website Analysis Assignment
Criteria
Appropriate Health related topic/issue for patient/consumer
and/or family education selected.
An explanation of your health topic/issue and why you selected it
(Significance of the topic/issue selected).
• Find an internet source that is designed to provide
information/education about your selected health topic/issue
and analyze the following:
➢ describe the website (main title, information)
➢ describe the overall impression about the design of the
website (organization, easiness of finding information,
easiness to read, table of content/index, colors, font, does
it look professional).
➢ Who is sponsoring the website?
➢ How often is the site updated? When was the site
created? Was it updated recently?
➢ Does it state that the content is not medical advice?
➢ Who is the intended audience? Does the site have a clear
target audience? is the information presented appropriate
to the target population?
• How credible are the information presented:
➢ Is there any evidence that the author of the web
information has some authority in the field about which
she or he is providing information? Who is responsible
for the information? What are the author's credentials? Is
a mechanism in place for you to contact the author?
➢ Are there clues that the author/s are biased? For example,
is he/she selling or promoting a product? Is the author
taking a personal stand on a social/political issue or is the
author being objective? Bias is not necessarily "bad," but
the connections should be clear.
➢ Does the information have a complete list of works cited,
which reference credible, authoritative sources? Is the
information valid and supported by evidence? Are
omissions noted? Is the author's point of view objective
and unbiased?
➢ Are the information accurate? any inconsistencies,
inaccuracies, errors, false information, etc…
➢ Are there links that point to additional, valuable resources
with minimum effort?
• Adequacy:
➢ Over all, does the site provide consumer/patient
education? is the education adequate or does the
consumer have to go somewhere else to find answers
about the topic?
Possible
Points
5
5
30
35
7.5
Earned Points/Comments
Criteria
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Sophistication of the information:
➢ Is this source too elementary, too technical, too
advanced, or just right?
➢ Is the purpose of the site clearly stated? Does the site
match its purpose? Is the site intended to educate or sell?
-References/Citation/Literature support:
Support the paper with literature and use at least 5 reliable
references of which at least 3 journal articles.
-Provide in-text citations throughout the paper.
Writing style is neat and consistent with the Herzing University
“grading rubric for written assignment” as described in this
syllabus.
-Submit a 3-5 pages analysis paper (excluding, cover page, and
reference page.)
-following APA format (include title page, running head,
introduction, headings, Summary paragraph, reference page, intext citation).
- No abstract needed
Possible
Points
7.5
Earned Points/Comments
15
5
10
Total
/120
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