Quality of information sources about mental disorders: A comparison of Wikipedia with centrally controlled web and printed sources

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1753-1762

  Reavley, N J ^a   MacKinnon, A J ^a   Morgan, A J ^a   Alvarez Jimenez, M ^a   Hetrick, S E ^a   Killackey, E ^a   Nelson, B ^a   Purcell, R ^a   Yap, M B H ^a   Jorm, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Internet information; mental disorders; quality; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BOOK; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHIATRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEARCH ENGINE; STANDARD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; ENCYCLOPEDIAS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MENTAL DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEARCH ENGINE; TEXTBOOKS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84863884299     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003329171100287X     Document Type: Article

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