Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Pınarbaşı Mah. Akdeniz Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi, 07070, Antalya, Konyaaltı, Turkey.
Int Ophthalmol. 2022 May;42(5):1499-1505. doi: 10.1007/s10792-021-02139-8. Epub 2021 Nov 29.
To evaluate the reliability, quality and effectiveness of YouTube videos addressing treatment of keratoconus.
This is a retrospective, cross-sectional and register-based study. A YouTube search was performed using the keyword treatment of keratoconus, and the first 100 videos that came out were included in the study. The numbers of views, likes, dislikes, comments, daily viewing rate (number of views per day), uploaded source (physicians, public or private institution, health channel or patients), country of origin, video type (patient experience, scholarly information), and described treatment technique (contact lens, corneal cross-linking, intrastromal corneal ring, topography-guided photorefractive keratectomy, keratoplasty) were evaluated for all videos. They were also evaluated regarding their DISCERN, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), global quality score (GQS) and usefulness score by two independent ophthalmologists.
Of the top 100 videos, 83 videos met the criteria. The mean DISCERN, JAMA, GQS and usefulness score were 42.92 ± 18.14, 2.7 ± 0.73, 3.07 ± 1.25 and 2.99 ± 1.44, respectively. Of the 83 videos, 35(42.2%) had been uploaded by physicians, 19(22.9%) by patients, 15(18.1%) by health channel, and 14(16.9%) by institutions/private health institutions. In the correlation analysis, the four scoring systems showed a statistically significant and strong positive correlation with each other (p < 0.001). In addition, viewing rate DISCERN, GQS, usefulness scores, number of likes, dislikes and comments showed a statistically significant positive correlation.
The content of YouTube videos regarding treatment of keratoconus is of generally good quality and is educational for patients. Increasing the number of videos uploaded by healthcare professionals will increase the quality, reliability and informative features of the videos.
评估有关圆锥角膜治疗的 YouTube 视频的可靠性、质量和有效性。
这是一项回顾性、横断面和基于登记的研究。使用关键词“圆锥角膜治疗”在 YouTube 上进行搜索，将前 100 个出现的视频纳入研究。评估所有视频的观看次数、点赞数、差评数、评论数、日观看率（每天的观看次数）、上传来源（医生、公共或私人机构、健康频道或患者）、原产国、视频类型（患者体验、学术信息）和描述的治疗技术（隐形眼镜、角膜交联、角膜内环、基于地形图的光折射性角膜切除术、角膜移植）。两位独立的眼科医生还对其 DISCERN、美国医学会杂志（JAMA）、全球质量评分（GQS）和有用性评分进行了评估。
在排名前 100 的视频中，有 83 个视频符合标准。DISCERN、JAMA、GQS 和有用性评分的平均值分别为 42.92±18.14、2.7±0.73、3.07±1.25 和 2.99±1.44。在 83 个视频中，35 个（42.2%）由医生上传，19 个（22.9%）由患者上传，15 个（18.1%）由健康频道上传，14 个（16.9%）由机构/私人医疗机构上传。在相关性分析中，四个评分系统彼此之间呈统计学显著的正相关（p<0.001）。此外，观看率、DISCERN、GQS、有用性评分、点赞数、差评数和评论数呈统计学显著正相关。
有关圆锥角膜治疗的 YouTube 视频内容总体质量较好，对患者具有教育意义。增加医疗保健专业人员上传的视频数量将提高视频的质量、可靠性和信息性。
