YouTube as a source of information for pressure injury: Quality assessment and content analysis

• Published in: International wound journal 2024-03, Vol.21 (3), p.e14729-n/a
• Main Authors: Bang, Myeonghwan, Jang, Chan Woong, Cho, Han Eol, Kim, Hyoung Seop
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Caregivers; Cell Movement; Content analysis; Correlation analysis; Health Personnel; Humans; Original; Physicians; pressure injury; pressure sore; pressure ulcer; Pressure Ulcer - therapy; Pressure ulcers; Reproducibility of Results; Social Media; Statistical analysis; video analysis; YouTube
• ISSN: 1742-4801; 1742-481X; 1742-481X
• DOI: 10.1111/iwj.14729

We aimed to assess the quality and reliability of pressure injury‐related videos uploaded on YouTube, analyse the sources and contents, and examine the correlation between video parameters. We searched YouTube using two keywords, “pressure ulcer” and “pressure sore”, on August 20, 2022. We sorted the videos according to their number of views and included the top 100 videos for each keyword. The quality of videos was assessed using the Global Quality Scale (GQS), while their reliability was evaluated by the modified DISCERN (mDISCERN) tool. In addition, we evaluated the videos in which content was included, analysed the correlations and differences between GQS, mDISCERN, and video parameters. We initially found a total of 100 videos for each keyword and finally included and analysed 77 videos. The mean scores for the mDISCERN and GQS were 2.35 ± 0.98 and 3.09 ± 0.99, respectively. Both GQS and mDISCERN showed statistically significant correlations with each other (rho = 0.54, p