YouTube Is a Poor-Quality Source for Patient Information Regarding Patellar Dislocations.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the content and quality of YouTube videos concerning patellar dislocations.

Methods

"Patellar dislocation" and "kneecap dislocation" were searched on the YouTube library. The Uniform Resource Locator of the first 25 suggested videos was extracted, for a total of 50 videos. The following variables were collected for each video: number of views, duration in minutes, video source/uploader, content type, days since upload, view ratio (views/day), and number of likes. Video source/uploader was categorized as academic, physician, nonphysician, medical source, patient, commercial, and other. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Global Quality Scale (GQS), Patellar Dislocation Specific Score (PDSS), and DISCERN scores were used to assess each v

SUBMITTER: Abed V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10123404 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature