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Widely Viewed English Language YouTube Videos Relating to Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study

BACKGROUND: An emergent source of information on health issues is the Internet. One such platform with 1 billion users is YouTube, the global video-sharing service. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the content and characteristics of the most widely viewed YouTube videos related t...

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Autores principales: Basch, Corey Hannah, Fung, Isaac Chun-Hai, Berdnik, Alyssa, Basch, Charles E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: JMIR Publications 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6238858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30291055
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/diabetes.6450
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Fung, Isaac Chun-Hai
Berdnik, Alyssa
Basch, Charles E
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description BACKGROUND: An emergent source of information on health issues is the Internet. One such platform with 1 billion users is YouTube, the global video-sharing service. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the content and characteristics of the most widely viewed YouTube videos related to diabetic retinopathy. METHODS: Videos were sorted according to number of views using the key words “diabetic retinopathy.” For each video, general descriptive information was collected. This information included date and source of upload (news, professional, or consumer), length, and total number of views as of July 18, 2016. Content categories were largely informed by a National Eye Institute fact sheet. Each video was viewed to determine which, if any, of the given content categories were present. RESULTS: Of the 98 most widely viewed videos related to diabetic retinopathy, 42 were generated by consumers, 40 were generated by professionals, and 16 were generated from news-based sources. The largest number of views were generated from professionals (624,770/994,494, 63.82%). Compared with professional videos, consumer videos were viewed less frequently (W=622, P=.04). The main purpose of the majority of videos was to provide information (59/98, 60%), and most of the videos showed or mentioned retinopathy in general (75/98, 77%). Smaller numbers offered information about specific types of retinopathy, namely proliferative (26/98, 27%) and nonproliferative (17/98, 17%). Compared with consumer-generated videos, professional videos were 5.57 times more likely to mention that diabetic retinopathy can go unnoticed (95% CI 1.59-26.15). More than 80% (80/98) of the most widely viewed videos did not address the asymptomatic nature of the disease, only about one-third (33/98) mentioned prevention, and only 58 of the 98 videos (59%) mentioned screening. CONCLUSION: Future research is needed to identify aspects of YouTube videos that attract viewer attention and best practices for using this medium to increase diabetic retinopathy screening among people with diabetes.
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spelling pubmed-62388582018-12-27 Widely Viewed English Language YouTube Videos Relating to Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study Basch, Corey Hannah Fung, Isaac Chun-Hai Berdnik, Alyssa Basch, Charles E JMIR Diabetes Original Paper BACKGROUND: An emergent source of information on health issues is the Internet. One such platform with 1 billion users is YouTube, the global video-sharing service. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to describe the content and characteristics of the most widely viewed YouTube videos related to diabetic retinopathy. METHODS: Videos were sorted according to number of views using the key words “diabetic retinopathy.” For each video, general descriptive information was collected. This information included date and source of upload (news, professional, or consumer), length, and total number of views as of July 18, 2016. Content categories were largely informed by a National Eye Institute fact sheet. Each video was viewed to determine which, if any, of the given content categories were present. RESULTS: Of the 98 most widely viewed videos related to diabetic retinopathy, 42 were generated by consumers, 40 were generated by professionals, and 16 were generated from news-based sources. The largest number of views were generated from professionals (624,770/994,494, 63.82%). Compared with professional videos, consumer videos were viewed less frequently (W=622, P=.04). The main purpose of the majority of videos was to provide information (59/98, 60%), and most of the videos showed or mentioned retinopathy in general (75/98, 77%). Smaller numbers offered information about specific types of retinopathy, namely proliferative (26/98, 27%) and nonproliferative (17/98, 17%). Compared with consumer-generated videos, professional videos were 5.57 times more likely to mention that diabetic retinopathy can go unnoticed (95% CI 1.59-26.15). More than 80% (80/98) of the most widely viewed videos did not address the asymptomatic nature of the disease, only about one-third (33/98) mentioned prevention, and only 58 of the 98 videos (59%) mentioned screening. CONCLUSION: Future research is needed to identify aspects of YouTube videos that attract viewer attention and best practices for using this medium to increase diabetic retinopathy screening among people with diabetes. JMIR Publications 2016-12-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6238858/ /pubmed/30291055 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/diabetes.6450 Text en ©Corey Hannah Basch, Isaac Chun-Hai Fung, Alyssa Berdnik, Charles E Basch. Originally published in JMIR Diabetes (http://diabetes.jmir.org), 14.12.2016. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIR Diabetes, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://diabetes.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Basch, Corey Hannah
Fung, Isaac Chun-Hai
Berdnik, Alyssa
Basch, Charles E
Widely Viewed English Language YouTube Videos Relating to Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study
title Widely Viewed English Language YouTube Videos Relating to Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full Widely Viewed English Language YouTube Videos Relating to Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_fullStr Widely Viewed English Language YouTube Videos Relating to Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_full_unstemmed Widely Viewed English Language YouTube Videos Relating to Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_short Widely Viewed English Language YouTube Videos Relating to Diabetic Retinopathy: A Cross-Sectional Study
title_sort widely viewed english language youtube videos relating to diabetic retinopathy: a cross-sectional study
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6238858/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30291055
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/diabetes.6450
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