YouTube Is a Poor-Quality Source for Patient Information Regarding Patellar Dislocations.

Area of Science:

• Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
• Medical Education
• Digital Health

Background:

• YouTube is a popular source for health information.
• Assessing the quality of medical information on YouTube is crucial for patient guidance.
• Patellar dislocations are common injuries requiring accurate patient education.

Purpose of the Study:

• To evaluate the content quality and reliability of YouTube videos about patellar dislocations.
• To identify characteristics of high-quality patellar dislocation videos on YouTube.

Main Methods:

• Searched YouTube for "patellar dislocation" and "kneecap dislocation", analyzing the top 50 videos.
• Collected data on views, duration, uploader type, and engagement metrics.
• Assessed video quality using the JAMA benchmark, Global Quality Scale (GQS), and Patellar Dislocation Specific Score (PDSS).

Main Results:

• Physicians were the most common uploaders (42%).
• Academic sources had the highest JAMA scores, while physician and non-physician sources had the highest GQS scores.
• Videos uploaded by physicians achieved the highest PDSS scores.

Conclusions:

• YouTube videos on patellar dislocation generally exhibit poor transparency, reliability, and content quality.
• Educational and overall video quality (GQS) were intermediate.
• Physician-uploaded content demonstrated superior quality in specific metrics (PDSS).