Infographics in the health sciences: application to the sexually transmitted diseases
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https://doi.org/10.19230/jonnpr.3483Keywords:
Infographics, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Access to Information, Educational and Promotional Materials, CopyrightAbstract
Objective. To describe the infographics on sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) recovered through Google Images® and analyze their information and possibilities of use.
Methods. Cross-sectional descriptive study. The infographics were obtained by searching with the terms "infographic", "sexually transmitted diseases" and "sexually transmitted infections". To select the images for the study, a sample size was calculated by estimating parameters in an infinite population. The date of the search was 15 of March 2018.
Results. 386 infographics were selected for each term (diseases/infections), discarding 198 (20.4%) images due to documentary noise; 718 infographics (99.5%) were informative. Most of them, came from personal blogs, 129 (16.7%) or individual, 54 (7.0%). They presented some type of license 31 (4.0%) infographics. More than half (Median = 0.4 Mpx) of the analyzed images presented adequate resolution.
Conclusions. It was possible to recover infographics about STDs but with a high "documentary noise" that was mostly informative. There was a low institutional affiliation of these images that did not have a convenient use of Creative Commons licenses, although most of them presented a good image resolution.
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