CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Laryngorhinootologie 2018; 97(S 02): S50
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1639885
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Gesundheitsökonomie: Health Economics

YouTube Videos as a Supporting Tool in Counselling: Experience after 6 Years and 1.500.000 Views

J Draws
1   Praxis, Celle
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Introduction:

In the early days of the internet all publications had to be texts or pictures. Nowadays, videos augment these forms of presentation in a growing number.

Materials and Methods:

In November 2011 six videos covering common questions in an ENT Clinic were posted on YouTube. We launched the german YouTube channel „HNO Ratgeber“. In the following six years we published more videos. Until October 2017 we now have 60 videos published online, covering various topics within the field of Otorhinolaryngology.

Results:

Within the first four weeks the starting six videos were viewed 90 times. Until today a continuous rise to 30.000 views per month is seen on the channel. In total the published videos have been viewed 1.5 million times and the channel has 1.500 subscribers. Most popular are videos showing the otolith repositioning maneuvers in benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

Discussion:

The reliability of medical information in the internet is a major problem in text and picture publications. This has been extensively discussed in literature. In videos the explaining physician is seen and the URL of his clinic website is displayed. As a result his registration with the medical board can be seen in the legal notice (German: Impressum) and further information of the author can be gained.

Complex problems can be explained via video much better than by text and picture only.

English subtitles allow a worldwide distribution of the content.



Publication History

Publication Date:
18 April 2018 (online)

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