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Analysis of YouTube Videos on Pregnant COVID-19 Patients During the Pandemic Period

Objective: Pregnant women often refer to YouTube videos when they are worried about themselves and/or their baby. This study aims to evaluate COVID-19 and pregnancy-related content on YouTube, the platform that comes to mind first when social media is mentioned. Methods: YouTube videos were evaluate...

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Autor principal: Atigan, Ayhan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9634676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348897
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29934
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description Objective: Pregnant women often refer to YouTube videos when they are worried about themselves and/or their baby. This study aims to evaluate COVID-19 and pregnancy-related content on YouTube, the platform that comes to mind first when social media is mentioned. Methods: YouTube videos were evaluated between September 7-10, 2022. “COVID-19 pregnancy” videos with more than 100.000 views were included in the study. The content and technical data of 45 videos were recorded. The videos were scored using the DISCERN score, Video Power Index (VPI), and Global Quality Scale (GQS). Results: Of the 45 videos with a mean duration of 432 seconds, 32 (71.1%) of them originated in the USA, 38 (84.4%) of them were presented by healthcare workers, and 36 (80.0%) of them recommended vaccination. Accounts producing the videos had a mean of 3,037,619 subscribers. The videos we analyzed were viewed a mean of 522836 times. These videos had 9287 likes and 1891 comments. The DISCERN, VPI, and GQS mean scores of the videos were 32.36, 74.76, and 3.82, respectively. Conclusion: In order to correctly inform society about health problems, healthcare workers must make presentations on YouTube with a controlled mechanism. There is confusion about information on the internet, and people must acquire information selectively.
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spelling pubmed-96346762022-11-07 Analysis of YouTube Videos on Pregnant COVID-19 Patients During the Pandemic Period Atigan, Ayhan Cureus Obstetrics/Gynecology Objective: Pregnant women often refer to YouTube videos when they are worried about themselves and/or their baby. This study aims to evaluate COVID-19 and pregnancy-related content on YouTube, the platform that comes to mind first when social media is mentioned. Methods: YouTube videos were evaluated between September 7-10, 2022. “COVID-19 pregnancy” videos with more than 100.000 views were included in the study. The content and technical data of 45 videos were recorded. The videos were scored using the DISCERN score, Video Power Index (VPI), and Global Quality Scale (GQS). Results: Of the 45 videos with a mean duration of 432 seconds, 32 (71.1%) of them originated in the USA, 38 (84.4%) of them were presented by healthcare workers, and 36 (80.0%) of them recommended vaccination. Accounts producing the videos had a mean of 3,037,619 subscribers. The videos we analyzed were viewed a mean of 522836 times. These videos had 9287 likes and 1891 comments. The DISCERN, VPI, and GQS mean scores of the videos were 32.36, 74.76, and 3.82, respectively. Conclusion: In order to correctly inform society about health problems, healthcare workers must make presentations on YouTube with a controlled mechanism. There is confusion about information on the internet, and people must acquire information selectively. Cureus 2022-10-05 /pmc/articles/PMC9634676/ /pubmed/36348897 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29934 Text en Copyright © 2022, Atigan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_short Analysis of YouTube Videos on Pregnant COVID-19 Patients During the Pandemic Period
title_sort analysis of youtube videos on pregnant covid-19 patients during the pandemic period
topic Obstetrics/Gynecology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9634676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348897
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.29934
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