STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of @entity6191 ( @entity6191 ) in the South of France. OBJECTIVE: To determine what @entity6191 think about francophone Internet sites dedicated to @entity1643 ( @entity1643 ). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: @entity1 with @entity1643 often seek medical information about their symptoms on the Internet. The quality of the information is usually poor. To date, the opinion of @entity6191 concerning the quality of @entity1643 @entity19688 sites remains unknown. METHODS: We invited the 112 @entity6191 in the Southern region to participate. The @entity1 used an assessment scale to evaluate 7 @entity19688 sites about @entity1643 in semicontrolled conditions. The quality and the importance of the different types of information (medical, nonmedical) and the design were measured on a visual analog scale (0-100) and with the point-sharing method (scale of 0-10). RESULTS: In total, 47 @entity6191 responded. The median quality score for the 7 @entity19688 sites was 50 (range 30-79). The score for medical information was 52.5 (10-80), for nonmedical information it was 60.4 (20-90), and for design it was 56.4 (30-85). For nonmedical information, the median relative weight was 4, and for both medical information and design it was 3. CONCLUSION: French @entity6191 believe that @entity1643 @entity19688 sites should focus on nonmedical, practical advice; they consider the design at least as important as the medical information. This viewpoint seems to conflict in part with @entity1 ' expectations. Good-quality and interactive @entity19688 sites could reduce this discordance. A list of approved sites should be available for general practitioners to recommend to their @entity1 , to supplement information given during the consultation.

How do general practitioners assess XXXX @entity19688 sites?

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'Patients', 'patients'] @entity19688 :: ('MESH:C563636', 'Disease') :: ['Web'] @entity1643 :: ('MESH:D017116', 'Disease') :: ['chronic low back pain', 'CLBP'] @entity6191 :: ('MESH:D004829', 'Disease') :: ['teaching general practitioners', 'TGPs']
@entity1643 :: (MESH:D017116,Disease) :: ['low back pain']
