Is YouTube a reliable source of health-related information? A systematic review

W Osman, F Mohamed, M Elhassan, A Shoufan - BMC Medical Education, 2022 - Springer
Background YouTube is a valuable source of health-related educational material which can
have a profound impact on people's behaviors and decisions. However, YouTube contains a …

Designing telemedicine systems for geriatric patients: a review of the usability studies

S Narasimha, KC Madathil, S Agnisarman… - Telemedicine and e …, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Background: One area where telemedicine may prove to be highly effective is in providing
medical care to the geriatric population, an age group predicted to account for 20% of the …

The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on food priorities. Results from a preliminary study using social media and an online survey with Spanish consumers

L Laguna, S Fiszman, P Puerta, C Chaya… - Food quality and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This preliminary study describes the impact of the COVID-19 health crisis on people's
interests, opinions, and behaviour towards food. Here, the evolution of people's internet …

Short video apps as a health information source: an investigation of affordances, user experience and users' intention to continue the use of TikTok

S Song, YC Zhao, X Yao, Z Ba, Q Zhu - Internet Research, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose Although leveraging social media to access healthcare information is nothing new,
a boom in short video apps offers new potential for disseminating health-related information …

[HTML][HTML] Medical and health-related misinformation on social media: bibliometric study of the scientific literature

AWK Yeung, A Tosevska, E Klager… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - jmir.org
Background Social media has been extensively used for the communication of health-
related information and consecutively for the potential spread of medical misinformation …

Evaluating the accuracy and quality of the information in kyphosis videos shared on YouTube

MN Erdem, S Karaca - Spine, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. A quality-control YouTube-based study using the recognized quality scoring
systems. Objective. In this study, our aim was to confirm the accuracy and quality of the …

[HTML][HTML] Short-video apps as a health information source for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: information quality assessment of TikTok videos

S Song, X Xue, YC Zhao, J Li, Q Zhu, M Zhao - Journal of medical Internet …, 2021 - jmir.org
Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has become one of the most
critical public health problems worldwide. Because many COPD patients are using video …

Are internet videos useful sources of information during global public health emergencies? A case study of YouTube videos during the 2015–16 Zika virus pandemic

K Bora, D Das, B Barman, P Borah - Pathogens and global health, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Internet-videos, though popular sources of public health information, are often
unverified and anecdotal. We critically evaluated YouTube videos about Zika virus available …

YouTube as a source of information on gout: a quality analysis

ME Onder, O Zengin - Rheumatology International, 2021 - Springer
YouTube is a popular video-sharing platform commonly visited by patients and healthcare
professionals for medical information. Gout is the most frequent cause of inflammatory …

Evaluation of the reliability, utility, and quality of the information in sleeve gastrectomy videos shared on open access video sharing platform YouTube

MF Ferhatoglu, A Kartal, U Ekici, A Gurkan - Obesity surgery, 2019 - Springer
Background The internet is a widely used source for obtaining medical information both by
patients and physicians. YouTube® is a valuable information resource which can improve …