Educational value assessment of YouTube surgical videos of green light laser vaporization of the prostate.

ABSTRACT:

Background

YouTube is commonly used by doctors to learn surgery. To date, no studies have evaluated the quality of videos on photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP) for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) on YouTube. Our aim was to assess the educational value of YouTube videos regarding PVP.

Methods

"Green light laser vaporization of the prostate" and "photoselective vaporization of the prostate (PVP)" were searched by 2 authors on YouTube on February 14, 2022. Based on the Laparoscopic Surgery Video Educational Guidelines and previous studies, a checklist that included 4 major and 16 minor items was developed. SPSS version 26 (IBM Corp., Armonk, NY, USA) was used to analyze the data using correlation analysis.

Results

A total of 74 surgical videos were asse

SUBMITTER: Yang SQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9827411 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature