Department of General Surgery, Altinbas University Faculty of Medicine, Medical Park Bahcelievler Hospital, Fevzi Cakmak Cd. Davutoglu Apt. No: 23/10, 34180 Bahcelievler, Istanbul, Turkey.
J Cancer Educ. 2020 Jun;35(3):599-605. doi: 10.1007/s13187-019-01502-9.
The purpose of the present study was to assess the quality of information available on YouTube videos pertaining to thyroid cancer. A search of YouTube (http://www.youtube.com) was performed on February 12, 2018, using the search terms "thyroid cancer" and "thyroid cancer treatment." The first 50 videos that appeared on each search were reviewed and 52 videos were included in the analysis. Videos were independently analyzed by two authors for video characteristics including publishing source of upload, continent of origin, presence of animation, and numbers of views, likes, and dislikes. The quality of information provided was assessed using the DISCERN and JAMA benchmark scores, while video power index was also calculated. The median (min-max) DISCERN score was 19.5 (4-71) for reviewer 1 and 20.0 (4-72) for reviewer 2. The median (min-max) JAMA benchmark score was 2.0 (1-4) for both reviewers. JAMA scores were positively correlated with video power index in both reviewer 1 (r = 0.310, p = 0.025) and reviewer 2 (r = 0.356, p = 0.010) assessment. JAMA and DISCERN scores were positively correlated with duration of videos in both reviewer 1 (r = 0.454, p = 0.001 and r = 0.533, p < 0.001, respectively) and reviewer 2 (r = 0.541, p < 0.001 and r = 0.519, p < 0.001, respectively) assessment. In conclusion, our findings revealed poor quality of information provided by YouTube videos pertaining to thyroid cancer based on DISCERN and JAWA scores. Videos with longer duration and higher video power index seem to be associated with higher quality scores, whereas no impact of using animation was shown on quality scores as well as no association between video duration and video power index.
本研究旨在评估与甲状腺癌相关的 YouTube 视频中信息的质量。于 2018 年 2 月 12 日，我们通过在 YouTube（http://www.youtube.com）上搜索“甲状腺癌”和“甲状腺癌治疗”这两个关键词，进行了一次搜索。我们对每个搜索中出现的前 50 个视频进行了审查，最终有 52 个视频被纳入分析。两位作者独立分析了视频特征，包括上传的发布来源、起源大陆、是否有动画以及观看次数、点赞次数和不喜欢次数。我们使用 DISCERN 和 JAMA 基准评分来评估提供信息的质量，同时还计算了视频功率指数。第一评审员的 DISCERN 评分中位数（最小值-最大值）为 19.5（4-71），第二评审员的 DISCERN 评分中位数（最小值-最大值）为 20.0（4-72）。两位评审员的 JAMA 基准评分中位数（最小值-最大值）均为 2.0（1-4）。第一评审员（r=0.310，p=0.025）和第二评审员（r=0.356，p=0.010）评估时，JAMA 评分与视频功率指数呈正相关。第一评审员（r=0.454，p=0.001 和 r=0.533，p<0.001）和第二评审员（r=0.541，p<0.001 和 r=0.519，p<0.001）评估时，JAMA 和 DISCERN 评分与视频时长呈正相关。总之，我们的研究结果表明，根据 DISCERN 和 JAWA 评分，与甲状腺癌相关的 YouTube 视频提供的信息质量较差。视频时长较长和视频功率指数较高的视频似乎与较高的质量评分相关，而使用动画并没有对质量评分产生影响，视频时长和视频功率指数之间也没有关联。
