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Assessment of YouTube Videos about Urethral Stricture and Its Management
Emre Tokuc1, Ridvan Kayar1, Ilker Artuk1
1Urology, Health Sciences University Haydarpasa Numune SUAM, Istanbul, Turkey.
Purpose:
To evaluate the reliability, transparency, usability and technical quality of videos about urethral stricture and its management in the most common video-sharing website "YouTube".
Methods:
We performed a video search on YouTube using the keywords "Urethral Stricture", "Internal Urethrotomy" and "Urethroplasty". After excluding the videos that did not meet the inclusion criteria, demographic data of each video was recorded and assessed with the validated DISCERN questionnaire, the Journal of the American Medical Association Benchmark Score (JAMAs) and the Global Quality Score (GQS). Additionally, the Urethral Stricture Video Score was developed by two experienced surgeons to assess the technical aspects. Videos were also compared with a view to their source of upload.
Results:
A total of 177 videos were analysed. Videos from "University" and "Other" had a significantly higher view ratio and video power index (VPI) than the rest (all p<0.05). For all mentioned scores, even though the video sources of "Society" and "University" had significantly higher scores than the rest (all p<0.05), all scores remained at a low to moderate level at each group.
Conclusion:
Even though universities, societies and organisations tend to upload better videos about the management of urethral stricture in terms of general quality, reliability, transparency and technical aspects, the online visual content about urethral stricture and its management needs to be improved in order to provide more reliable and qualified information for both clinicians and patients.
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