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Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube
BACKGROUND: In recent years, YouTube has become a recognized source of medical information for health care consumers. Although YouTube has advantages in this context, there are potential dangers as videos may contain nonscientific, misleading, or even harmful information. OBJECTIVE: As little is kno...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7210495/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32329744 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15599 |
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author | Mueller, Simon M Hongler, Valentina N S Jungo, Pierre Cajacob, Lucian Schwegler, Simon Steveling, Esther H Manjaly Thomas, Zita-Rose Fuchs, Oliver Navarini, Alexander Scherer, Kathrin Brandt, Oliver |
author_facet | Mueller, Simon M Hongler, Valentina N S Jungo, Pierre Cajacob, Lucian Schwegler, Simon Steveling, Esther H Manjaly Thomas, Zita-Rose Fuchs, Oliver Navarini, Alexander Scherer, Kathrin Brandt, Oliver |
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description | BACKGROUND: In recent years, YouTube has become a recognized source of medical information for health care consumers. Although YouTube has advantages in this context, there are potential dangers as videos may contain nonscientific, misleading, or even harmful information. OBJECTIVE: As little is known about YouTube as a source of information on atopic dermatitis (AD), we investigated the content-related quality of AD videos and their perception among YouTube users. METHODS: The quality of the 100 most viewed AD videos was assessed by using the Global Quality Scale (GQS) and the DISCERN instrument. Videos were classified as “useful,” “misleading,” and “potentially harmful,” and the correlations of viewers’ ratings (likes) with the GQS and DISCERN scores were assessed. RESULTS: Among the 100 videos, 68.0% (68/100) and 62.0% (62/100) were of poor and very poor scientific quality, respectively. Additionally, 32.0% (32/100) of the videos were classified as useful, 48.0% (48/100) were classified as misleading, and 34.0% (34/100) were classified as potentially harmful. Viewers’ ratings did not correlate with the GQS and DISCERN scores. Overall, 50.0% (50/100) of the videos were posted by private individuals and promoters of complementary/alternative treatments, 42.0% (42/100) by therapeutical advertisers, and only 8.0% (8/100) by nonprofit organizations/universities. CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrated that two-thirds of the videos analyzed were below acceptable medical quality standards and that many videos were disseminating misleading or even dangerous content. Subjective and anecdotal content was overrepresented, and viewers did not appear to be able to distinguish between high- and low-quality videos. Health promotion strategies by professional medical organizations are needed to improve their presence and visibility on YouTube. |
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spelling | pubmed-72104952020-05-12 Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube Mueller, Simon M Hongler, Valentina N S Jungo, Pierre Cajacob, Lucian Schwegler, Simon Steveling, Esther H Manjaly Thomas, Zita-Rose Fuchs, Oliver Navarini, Alexander Scherer, Kathrin Brandt, Oliver J Med Internet Res Original Paper BACKGROUND: In recent years, YouTube has become a recognized source of medical information for health care consumers. Although YouTube has advantages in this context, there are potential dangers as videos may contain nonscientific, misleading, or even harmful information. OBJECTIVE: As little is known about YouTube as a source of information on atopic dermatitis (AD), we investigated the content-related quality of AD videos and their perception among YouTube users. METHODS: The quality of the 100 most viewed AD videos was assessed by using the Global Quality Scale (GQS) and the DISCERN instrument. Videos were classified as “useful,” “misleading,” and “potentially harmful,” and the correlations of viewers’ ratings (likes) with the GQS and DISCERN scores were assessed. RESULTS: Among the 100 videos, 68.0% (68/100) and 62.0% (62/100) were of poor and very poor scientific quality, respectively. Additionally, 32.0% (32/100) of the videos were classified as useful, 48.0% (48/100) were classified as misleading, and 34.0% (34/100) were classified as potentially harmful. Viewers’ ratings did not correlate with the GQS and DISCERN scores. Overall, 50.0% (50/100) of the videos were posted by private individuals and promoters of complementary/alternative treatments, 42.0% (42/100) by therapeutical advertisers, and only 8.0% (8/100) by nonprofit organizations/universities. CONCLUSIONS: Our study demonstrated that two-thirds of the videos analyzed were below acceptable medical quality standards and that many videos were disseminating misleading or even dangerous content. Subjective and anecdotal content was overrepresented, and viewers did not appear to be able to distinguish between high- and low-quality videos. Health promotion strategies by professional medical organizations are needed to improve their presence and visibility on YouTube. JMIR Publications 2020-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7210495/ /pubmed/32329744 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15599 Text en ©Simon M Mueller, Valentina N S Hongler, Pierre Jungo, Lucian Cajacob, Simon Schwegler, Esther H Steveling, Zita-Rose Manjaly Thomas, Oliver Fuchs, Alexander Navarini, Kathrin Scherer, Oliver Brandt. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 24.04.2020. 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 the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Mueller, Simon M Hongler, Valentina N S Jungo, Pierre Cajacob, Lucian Schwegler, Simon Steveling, Esther H Manjaly Thomas, Zita-Rose Fuchs, Oliver Navarini, Alexander Scherer, Kathrin Brandt, Oliver Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube |
title | Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube |
title_full | Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube |
title_fullStr | Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube |
title_full_unstemmed | Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube |
title_short | Fiction, Falsehoods, and Few Facts: Cross-Sectional Study on the Content-Related Quality of Atopic Eczema-Related Videos on YouTube |
title_sort | fiction, falsehoods, and few facts: cross-sectional study on the content-related quality of atopic eczema-related videos on youtube |
topic | Original Paper |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7210495/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32329744 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15599 |
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