YouTube as a source of patient information on brain aneurysms: a content-quality and audience engagement analysis.
Neurol Neurochir Pol
; 55(5): 485-493, 2021.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1512966
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
The internet allows patients to access a vast amount of health information. We aimed to evaluate the credibility of YouTube videos that members of the public are accessing on brain aneurysms, and to evaluate what characteristics drive audience engagement. MATERIAL ANDMETHODS:
The first 50 videos for each of the following search terms were taken foranalysis:
'brain aneurysm', 'cerebral aneurysm' and 'intracranial aneurysm'. The quality of each video was evaluated by two neurosurgeons and two medical students independently using the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the DISCERN instruments. Qualitative and quantitative video data was analysed for quality and audience engagement. Inter-rater agreement was ascertained.RESULTS:
Out of a total of 150 videos, 70 met the inclusion criteria. The mean total DISCERN score was 36.5 ± 8.4 (out of 75 points), indicating that the videos were of poor quality. The mean JAMA score was 2.7 ± 0.7 (out of 4 points). Inter-rater agreement between the four raters was excellent (intraclass correlation coefficient 0.90 for DISCERN and 0.93 for JAMA). Most videos were uploaded by hospitals (50%) or educational health channels (30%). Videos had a higher number of average daily views when they included animation (P = 0.0093) and diagrams (P = 0.0422).CONCLUSIONS:
YouTube is a poor source of patient information on brain aneurysms. Our quality and audience engagement analysis may help content creators (i.e. hospital staff and physicians) to create more holistic, educational and engaging medical videos concerning brain aneurysms. Physicians could usefully refer their patients to the highest quality videos that we have found.Keywords
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Intracranial Aneurysm
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Social Media
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Prognostic study
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Qualitative research
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Neurol Neurochir Pol
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
PJNNS.a2021.0073
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