Quality Assessment of Web-Based Information Related to Diet During Pregnancy in Pregnant Women: Cross-Sectional Descriptive Study

Although many websites use cautious language to mitigate commercial influence, deficiencies persist in crucial areas for empowering informed decision-making among pregnant women. From our assessment of the results, it was found that incorrect evidence information is provided at the top of search results, which is easily accessible to users. The inadequacies in attributing authorship, clarifying conflicts of interest, and ensuring the currency of information pose substantial challenges to the reliability and usefulness of online health resources in prenatal nutrition. Since internet-based information is the most accessible, reliable evidence should be provided to protect everyone from misinformation, including shallow health literacy demographics, and from potential physical and psychological harm.