Research Article

Impact of The Social Media on COVID-19: Is YouTube In or Out?

Volume: 19 Number: 2 August 28, 2022
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Impact of The Social Media on COVID-19: Is YouTube In or Out?

Abstract

Background and aim The COVID-19 is an important urgent public health problem in the last century. Youtube has become one of the information points for COVID-19. Many COVID-19 patients have talked about their experiences on Youtube. It has been aimed to evaluate the proficiency of videos about COVID-19 symptoms on Youtube. Methods The terms “COVID 19 symptoms”, “coronavirus 19 symptoms”, “symptoms of coronavirus” and “symptoms of COVID 19” have been searched on Youtube on 01 April 2020, the videos that were uploaded in 2020 and viewed more than 10,000 times until then were scanned and 719 videos were examined. Videos with an inappropriate language, videos with a duration of shorter than 1 minute, videos that have been deleted by the uploader and videos that contain information incompatible with the title excluded. The videos were examined by two physicians in terms of discussing the symptoms and wrong information and graded. Results Totally 202 videos were included in the study. Among the uploaders Healthcare Personnel (HP) (3.5%) and Institutions (9.4%) are the two lowest groups. No difference has been found between Institutions, HP, Individuals Other Than Healthcare Personnel (IOHP) and Unknown Uploaders. Among the uploader groups with 12 and higher points, IOHP stood out among other uploaders significantly with a ratio of 46.7%. Only 4.1% of the videos included wrong/imperfect information and a statistically significant relation between uploader groups was not determined (p>0.05). Conclusions It is important that COVID-19 symptoms are reflected correctly on Youtube, which is one of the most frequently used sites all over the world, in terms of people recognizing the disease in the time of pandemic and isolating themselves and making the decision to apply for a healthcare provider. Creation of more content by healthcare personnel, in a period with such heavy social media usage, will be useful in terms of informing the public.

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Primary Language

English

Subjects

Clinical Sciences

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

August 28, 2022

Submission Date

June 3, 2022

Acceptance Date

August 6, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 19 Number: 2

Vancouver
1.Gökhan Eyüpoğlu, Mustafa Çalık, Oğuzhan Bol, Tarık Akdemir, Deniz Özel Erkan, Muhammed İkbal Şaşmaz, Ramazan Güven. Impact of The Social Media on COVID-19: Is YouTube In or Out? Harran Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi. 2022 Aug. 1;19(2):406-11. doi:10.35440/hutfd.1065163

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