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Quality Analysis of YouTube-Based Exercise Programs for Typically Developing Children: Content Analysis.

Juntaek Hong¹, Yerim Do¹, Dong-Wook Rha¹

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Summary

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YouTube exercise videos for children often lack essential program elements and quality, despite moderate content quality. Popularity does not indicate effectiveness for kids' physical activity programs.

Keywords:

YouTube child exercise program usability video quality

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Area of Science:

Pediatric Exercise Science
Digital Health Interventions
Media Studies

Background:

Childhood physical activity is crucial but declining globally.
The COVID-19 pandemic increased at-home exercise and YouTube use among children.
Assessing the quality of online exercise education is vital.

Purpose of the Study:

To qualitatively assess YouTube-based exercise education programs for children.
To evaluate video content and exercise program effectiveness.
To determine correlations between video characteristics and program quality.

Main Methods:

Python-based YouTube data crawl (Nov 2023) using child exercise keywords.
Exclusion of irrelevant, non-English, outdated, or poorly timed videos.
Qualitative analysis using established metrics (m-DISCERN, GQS, etc.) and correlation analysis.

Main Results:

126 of 2936 videos met criteria; 10% from health professionals.
Videos primarily featured aerobic and muscle-strengthening exercises.
Moderate-to-high video content quality, but few met effective exercise program criteria (e.g., supervision, dosage).

Conclusions:

YouTube exercise content for children is often inadequate and not linked to popularity.
Video quality assessment tools are insufficient for evaluating exercise program quality.
Further development is needed for effective, high-quality online exercise resources for youth.