The survey found that half (50%) of all online youth have searched the Web for information on specific diseases such as cancer or diabetes. Sensitive, youth-oriented topics are also popular: about four in ten (44%) online youth have turned to the Internet for information about sexual health, including pregnancy, birth control, HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and about one in four have looked up information on weight issues (25%), mental health (23%), drugs and alcohol (23%), and violence (23%). Almost all young people who have looked for health information on the Internet say that what they find is useful (94%, including 39% who say it is “very useful”), but they remain skeptical about the quality of online health information in general. When asked about a variety of sources, 17% say they trust health information from the Internet “a lot,” as compared to 85% for doctors, 68% for parents, and 30% for the television news. And although a large majority of young people (73%) say that knowing who produced health information is very important to them, only 29% of those who looked up health information online checked the source the last time they conducted a search
by Kaiser Family Foundation
From: sexualHealth.Com
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