{"id":5121,"date":"2010-03-15T16:55:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmedicine.org\/epatients\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2010-03-15T16:57:02","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:57:02","slug":"patient-stories-on-health-web-sites-can-not-always-be-trusted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/2010\/03\/patient-stories-on-health-web-sites-can-not-always-be-trusted.html","title":{"rendered":"Patient Stories on Health Web Sites Can Not Always Be Trusted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/03\/lisa_gualt.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5124\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/participatorymedicine.org\/epatients\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/03\/lisa_gualt.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a>Guest post from Lisa Gualtieri, PhD, ScM, Adjunct Clinical Professor in the Health Communication Program at Tufts University School of Medicine. Lisa\u00a0teaches Online Consumer Health  and Web Strategies for Health Communication. A social media user herself, Lisa (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lisagualtieri\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lisangualtieri\">LinkedIn<\/a>) <a href=\"http:\/\/lisagualtieri.com\/\">blogs on health<\/a> and is Editor-in-Chief of <a href=\"http:\/\/elearnmag.org\/\">eLearn Magazine<\/a>, where she <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.acm.org\/elearn\/\">blogs on education<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the Internet, nobody knows you&#8217;re a dog&#8221; was the caption of the famous cartoon by Peter Steiner in the July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker. The same is true of patient stories on health Web sites: nobody knows who really wrote them. In the case of <a href=\"http:\/\/lifestylelift.com\/\">Lifestyle Lift<\/a>, the company agreed to pay a $300,000 settlement last year to New York State because their patient stories were employee-generated.<\/p>\n<p>Patient stories can provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmir.org\/2010\/1\/e7\">information, support, reassurance, and practical advice<\/a>, which is why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/Reports\/2009\/8-The-Social-Life-of-Health-Information\/03-Social-Media-and-Health\/1-Many-seek-a-justintime-someonelikeme-but-few-post-their-own-stories.aspx?r=1\">41% of e-patients<\/a> read the commentaries and experiences of others online. The three primary types of patient stories are the unedited user-generated stories in online health communities and patient blogs; professionally edited or \u201cas told to\u201d support stories; and promotional stories.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>User-generated stories in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightwatchers.com\/\">Weight Watchers\u2019<\/a> Message Boards provide context to questions and responses and add a sense of reality and dimension to the person posting, making authors, and therefore the content, seem trustworthy. This is not isolated to weight loss sites but is true of cancer support sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/acor.org\/\">ACOR.org<\/a> and countless other online health communities and <a href=\"http:\/\/lisagualtieri.com\/2010\/01\/23\/blogging\/\">patient blogs<\/a>. Similarly, in the more carefully crafted and edited support stories, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/livestrong.org\/\">Livestrong.org&#8217;s<\/a> Survivorship Stories and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weightwatchers.com\/\">Weight Watchers&#8217;<\/a> Success Stories, the details in each story make the person the story is about seem trustworthy. Any inaccuracies in the user-generated or edited stories may not be intentional and do not necessarily detract from the helpful or supportive nature of the story.<\/p>\n<p>Promotional stories are not always easily distinguishable from other types of stories on health Web sites. While Weight Watchers\u2019 Success Stories focus on strategies, <a href=\"http:\/\/rediscoveryourgo.com\/\">RediscoverYourGo<\/a> uses stories to promote replacement surgery. The stories are about the debilitating pain and the process of finding a doctor, undergoing surgery, and engaging in an active post-recovery lifestyle. According to the developer, they are from <a href=\"http:\/\/lisagualtieri.com\/2010\/02\/14\/stories\/\">\u201c100% real patients.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But not all stories are from 100% real patients. Lifestyle Lift\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/03\/04\/suit_ties_death_of_woman_to_face_lift\/\">employees fabricated testimonials<\/a>; actual patients&#8217; comments are now on their Web site, they claim. The Web site features before and after pictures, and, not surprisingly, the after pictures have better lighting and composition and the people are smiling, wearing flattering make up, have changed their hairstyles and clothing, and even put on jewelry. Well, no law against that.<\/p>\n<p>A hotly debated solution to discerning the credibility and reliability of health Web site content is seals. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hon.ch\/\">HONCode<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urac.org\/\">U.R.A.C.<\/a> are the seals that are best known for health Web sites, but many sites don\u2019t have them, most people don\u2019t know to look for them, and they don\u2019t have widespread recognition. While it was not a surprise that neither of those seals were on Lifestyle Lift, it was startling to find their own seal, &#8220;The Lifestyle Lift Code of Internet Conduct and Assurance&#8221;. It pledges that \u201ccomments and photographs are from actual clients\u201d and that they are \u201cproud to take a leadership role in establishing new standards of Internet conduct and communications\u201d. Was this seal created in response to the settlement? 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