Accuracy and Reliability of YouTube Videos as an Information Source for Osteoporosis

Year 2020, Volume: 73 Issue: 1, 9 - 13, 13.05.2020

Süleyman Utku Uzun

Abstract

Objectives: There is a little data available in the literature investigating videos related to osteoporosis in the internet media. The present study
investigates the characteristics and scientific accuracy of the videos related to osteoporosis, which have been uploaded and broadcast on the
YouTube website.

Materials and Methods: The key word “osteoporosis” was searched in February 2016 on the YouTube browser without any filters. The contents of
the recruited videos were assigned to three groups, including general information, preventing the disease, and treatment; while their usefulness was
classified as useful, moderately useful and not useful.

Results: Two hundred and thirty-seven (47.4%) videos formed the study group. Sixty-four point one percent of these videos contained definitive
and diagnostic information about the disease, and 87% included preventative suggestions. It was noted that 56.9% of the videos had content
related to treatment. Regardless of uploaders, the videos about osteoporosis were found to be low scores but when the videos were grouped
according to uploaders; the videos, which were uploaded by the governmental and official institutions or associations had the highest diagnostic,
preventing and treatment scores.

Conclusion: It cannot be proclaimed that the videos, which are related to osteoporosis, inform people accurately enough. It seems crucial that
videos giving information about health on such websites as YouTube, should be controlled beforehand or that more public viewing of videos
uploaded by the governmental and official institutions should be ensured. Considering the large volume of information gathering from this type of
internet source, by arranging the necessary regulations, video sharing websites may become more useful in public education

Keywords

Osteoporosis , YouTube , Video , Internet , Quality

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Youtube Videolarının Osteoporoz için Bilgi Kaynağı Olarak Doğruluğu ve Güvenilirliği

Abstract

Amaç: Literatürde internet ortamındaki osteoporoz ile ilgili videoları araştıran çok az veri bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışma, YouTube web sitesine yüklenen
ve yayınlanan osteoporoz ile ilgili videoların özelliklerini ve bilimsel doğruluğunu araştırmayı amaçlamaktadır.

Gereç ve Yöntem: “Osteoporoz” anahtar kelimesi Şubat 2016’da herhangi bir filtre kullanılmadan YouTube tarayıcısında aranmıştır. Değerlendirmeye
alınan videolar, genel bilgi veren, hastalığı önleyici ve tedavi bilgilendirmesi olmak üzere üç kategoriye ayrılmış; kaliteleri ise yararlı, orta derecede
yararlı ve yararlı değil olarak sınıflandırılmıştır.

Bulgular: İki yüz otuz yedi video (%47,4) çalışma grubuna dahil edilmiştir. Bu videoların %64’ü hastalık için tanımlayıcı ve tanısal bilgiler içermekteydi
ve %87 oranında video ise koruyucu öneriler içermekte idi. Videoların %56,9’unun tedaviyle ilgili içerik barındırdığı saptanmıştır. Yükleyicilerden
bağımsız olarak, osteoporoz ile ilgili videoların genel olarak düşük kaliteli olduğu görülmüştür; ancak videolar, yükleyicilere göre gruplandırıldığında;
devlet ve resmi kurumlar veya dernekler tarafından yüklenen videoların en yüksek tanı, önleme ve tedavi bilgilendirme puanlarına sahip olduğu
görülmüştür.

Sonuç: Youtubedaki osteoporoz ile ilgili videoların, kullanıcıları doğru bir şekilde bilgilendirdiği söylenemez. YouTube gibi web sitelerinde sağlık
hakkında bilgi veren videoların içeriklerinin kontrol edilmesi veya devlet kuruluşları ve resmi kurumlar tarafından yüklenen videoların daha fazla kişitarafından izlenmesinin sağlanması gerekli gözükmektedir. Bu tür internet kaynaklarından büyük miktarda bilgi edinildiği düşünüldüğünde, gerekli
düzenlemelerin yapılması, video paylaşım web sitelerini halk eğitiminde daha faydalı hale getirebilir.

Keywords

Osteoporoz , Youtube , Video , İnternet , Kalite

Ethical Statement

Ethics Committee Approval: Ethical approval was obtained from Pamukkale University, Faculty of Medicine Noninvasive Ethics Committee (approval number: 23 and date: 29.12.2015) Informed Consent: In this study, videos on Youtube was evaluated and informed consent was not obtained because there is no patient. Peer-review: Externally peer-reviewed. Authorship Contributions Concept: A.Ç.Y., Design: A.Ç.Y., Data Collection or Processing: A.Ç.Y., S.U.U., Analysis or Interpretation: A.Ç.Y., S.U.U., Literature Search: A.Ç.Y., S.U.U., Writing: A.Ç.Y., S.U.U. Conflict of Interest: No conflict of interest was declared by the authors. Financial Disclosure: The authors declared that this study received no financial support.

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