YouTube online videos as a source for patient education of cervical spondylosis—a reliability and quality analysis

• Published in: BMC public health Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 1831 - 17
• Main Authors: Wang, Hong, Yan, Chunyi, Wu, Tingkui, Zhang, Xiang, He, Junbo, Liu, Zhihao, Liu, Hao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 20.09.2023; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Analysis; Benchmarking; Care and treatment; Central nervous system diseases; Cervical spondylosis; Correlation analysis; Diagnosis; Education; Educational aspects; Humans; Internet videos; Kyphosis; Medical societies; Methods; Neurological diseases; Online health care information services; Online videos; Optimization; Patient education; Patient Education as Topic; Patients; Physicians; Quality; Quality management; Quality of education; Rankings; Regression analysis; Reliability; Reliability analysis; Reproducibility of Results; Social Media; Spinal cord; Spinal osteophytosis; Spondylosis; Statistical analysis; Teaching methods; United States; Variables; Video; YouTube; United States; China; Cervical spondylosis; Online videos; Patient education; Reliability; Quality; YouTube

Given a prolonged course of Cervical spondylosis (CS) could cause irreversible neurological deficits, it is crucial to disseminate CS-related health information to the public to promote early diagnosis and treatment. YouTube has been widely used to search for medical information. However, the reliab...