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Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review
BACKGROUND: Online medical education has relevance to public health literacy and physician efficacy, yet it requires a certain standard of reliability. While the internet has the potential to be a viable medical education tool, the viewer must be able to discern which information is reliable. OBJECT...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5826977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29434018 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mededu.8527 |
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description | BACKGROUND: Online medical education has relevance to public health literacy and physician efficacy, yet it requires a certain standard of reliability. While the internet has the potential to be a viable medical education tool, the viewer must be able to discern which information is reliable. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to perform a literature review to determine and compare the various methods used when analyzing YouTube videos for patient education efficacy, information accuracy, and quality. METHODS: In November 2016, a comprehensive search within PubMed and Embase resulted in 37 included studies. RESULTS: The review revealed that each video evaluation study first established search terms, exclusion criteria, and methods to analyze the videos in a consistent manner. The majority of the evaluators devised a scoring system, but variations were innumerable within each study’s methods. CONCLUSIONS: In comparing the 37 studies, we found that overall, common steps were taken to evaluate the content. However, a concrete set of methods did not exist. This is notable since many patients turn to the internet for medical information yet lack the tools to evaluate the advice being given. There was, however, a common aim of discovering what health-related content the public is accessing, and how credible that material is. |
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spelling | pubmed-58269772018-03-01 Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review Drozd, Brandy Couvillon, Emily Suarez, Andrea JMIR Med Educ Review BACKGROUND: Online medical education has relevance to public health literacy and physician efficacy, yet it requires a certain standard of reliability. While the internet has the potential to be a viable medical education tool, the viewer must be able to discern which information is reliable. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to perform a literature review to determine and compare the various methods used when analyzing YouTube videos for patient education efficacy, information accuracy, and quality. METHODS: In November 2016, a comprehensive search within PubMed and Embase resulted in 37 included studies. RESULTS: The review revealed that each video evaluation study first established search terms, exclusion criteria, and methods to analyze the videos in a consistent manner. The majority of the evaluators devised a scoring system, but variations were innumerable within each study’s methods. CONCLUSIONS: In comparing the 37 studies, we found that overall, common steps were taken to evaluate the content. However, a concrete set of methods did not exist. This is notable since many patients turn to the internet for medical information yet lack the tools to evaluate the advice being given. There was, however, a common aim of discovering what health-related content the public is accessing, and how credible that material is. JMIR Publications 2018-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5826977/ /pubmed/29434018 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mededu.8527 Text en ©Brandy Drozd, Emily Couvillon, Andrea Suarez. Originally published in JMIR Medical Education (http://mededu.jmir.org), 12.02.2018. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Medical Education, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://mededu.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Review Drozd, Brandy Couvillon, Emily Suarez, Andrea Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review |
title | Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review |
title_full | Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review |
title_fullStr | Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review |
title_short | Medical YouTube Videos and Methods of Evaluation: Literature Review |
title_sort | medical youtube videos and methods of evaluation: literature review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5826977/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29434018 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/mededu.8527 |
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