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BMC Public Health BioMed Central Research article Open Access Parental use of the Internet to seek health information and primary care utilisation for their child: a cross-sectional study Gauthier Bouche* and Virginie Migeot Address: Unité dévaluation médicale, Pôle Pharmacie et Santé Publique, CHU et Université de Poitiers, Poitiers, France Email: Gauthier Bouche* - gauthier.bouche@univ-poitiers.fr; Virginie Migeot - virginie.migeot@univ-poitiers.fr * Corresponding author Published: 28 August 2008 Received: 17 January 2008 Accepted: 28 August 2008 BMC Public Health 2008, 8:300 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-300 This article is available from: /1471-2458/8/300 © 2008 Bouche and Migeot; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Using the Internet to seek health information is becoming more common. Its consequences on health care utilisation are hardly known in the general population, in particular among children whose parents seek health information on the Internet. Our objective was to investigate the relationship between parental use of the Internet to seek health information and primary care utilisation for their child. Methods: This cross-sectional survey has been carried out in a population of parents of