YouTube as a Source of Patient Information for Meningiomas: A Content Quality and Audience Engagement Analysis
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Search Strategy and Data Collection
2.2. Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria
2.3. Variables Extracted
2.4. Scoring System
2.5. Audience Engagement
- (1)
- VPI = (likes × 100/(likes + dislikes)) × (views/day)/100;
- (2)
- Like Ratio = [likes/(likes + dislikes)] × 100.
2.6. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Video Quality Analysis
3.2. Misleading Information
3.3. Audience Engagement
3.4. Top five DISCERN/VPI Videos
4. Discussion
4.1. The Current Study
4.2. Future Directions
4.3. Limitations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
DISCERN | Quality Criteria for Consumer Health Information |
GQS | Global quality score |
JAMA | Journal 14 of the American Medical Association instrument |
VPI | Video power index |
YT | YouTube |
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Mean | Median | Sid | Min | Max | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Views | 24,210.47 | 5027.00 | 68,137.98 | 10.00 | 504,633.00 |
Likes | 224.59 | 50.00 | 659.30 | 0.00 | 6000.00 |
Dislikes | 8.29 | 1.00 | 24.91 | 0.00 | 228.00 |
Comments | 26.74 | 4.00 | 96.68 | 0.00 | 881.00 |
Subscribers | 53,936.77 | 24,000.00 | 88,249.26 | 118.00 | 426,000.00 |
Time (s) | 1133.62 | 506.00 | 1416.63 | 40.00 | 6655.00 |
Days since upload | 1688.71 | 1432.00 | 1098.97 | 280.00 | 5347.00 |
VPI | 16.34 | 3.71 | 55.08 | 0.02 | 510.63 |
Like ratio | 89.52 | 96.55 | 24.58 | 0.00 | 100.00 |
DISCERN | Views | Likes | Dislikes | Comments | Subscribers | Time (s) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mean | 34.67 | 30,082.29 | 206.40 | 8.49 | 28.68 | 57,136.00 | 1016.91 |
Median | 30.60 | 4159.00 | 36.00 | 1.00 | 7.00 | 26,300.00 | 316.00 |
Standard deviation | 11.08 | 86,380.08 | 429.58 | 21.65 | 76.64 | 85,988.86 | 1334.72 |
Minimum | 19.20 | 10.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 129.00 | 51.00 |
Maximum | 62.00 | 504,633.00 | 2200.00 | 125.00 | 419.00 | 424,000.00 | 4702.00 |
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Krakowiak, M.; Fercho, J.; Piwowska, K.; Yuser, R.; Szmuda, T.; Słoniewski, P. YouTube as a Source of Patient Information for Meningiomas: A Content Quality and Audience Engagement Analysis. Healthcare 2022, 10, 506. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030506
Krakowiak M, Fercho J, Piwowska K, Yuser R, Szmuda T, Słoniewski P. YouTube as a Source of Patient Information for Meningiomas: A Content Quality and Audience Engagement Analysis. Healthcare. 2022; 10(3):506. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030506
Chicago/Turabian StyleKrakowiak, Michał, Justyna Fercho, Kaja Piwowska, Rami Yuser, Tomasz Szmuda, and Paweł Słoniewski. 2022. "YouTube as a Source of Patient Information for Meningiomas: A Content Quality and Audience Engagement Analysis" Healthcare 10, no. 3: 506. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10030506