Postherpetik Nevraljili Hastaların Eğitimi İçin YouTube'un Kalitesini Değerlendirmek

Abstract

Introduction: Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) is one of the common complications of herpes virus and is the most common neuropathic pain syndrome after an infectious disease. YouTube is a widely used source for information, but the quality of YouTube videos in terms of medical content is questionable. Therefore, our aim was to evaluate the PHN-related quality of YouTube videos. Materials and Methods: This study was carried out by evaluating YouTube videos up to April 2023. A total of 65 videos were evaluated. The number of views and duration of the videos, the number of likes and views, the number of comments, the age of the videos and the source of the videos were recorded. We evaluated all videos for overall educational quality and creator bias. Content creators were categorized as physicians, health-related websites, and patients, and we compared overall DISCERN scores and bias scores between creator type and search term. Results: The average view count of the videos was 119224.62. The mean DISCERN and DISCERN Bias Scores were 2.01 and 2.14 respectively. Most of the videos were uploaded by the physicians. The DISCERN and DISCERN Bias scores were significantly higher in the videos uploaded by physicians (p