Facial Plast Surg 2023; 39(01): 086-092
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1744537
Original Research

Evaluating YouTube as a Source of Patient Information for Blefaroplasty

1   Department of Otolaryngology, University of Health Sciences, Umraniye Research and Education Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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2   Department of Ophthalmologist, University of Health Sciences, Goztepe Research and Education Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
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Funding None.

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the content and quality of popular videos about blepharoplasty treatment in YouTube. Four keywords “blepharoplasty,” “upper blepharoplasty,” “lower blepharoplasty,” and “blepharoplasty information” were searched in YouTube. After the videos were sorted by the number of views, the last 50 videos were based on general characteristics, primary purpose, information content, relevance, audiovisual quality, as well as viewer interaction index DISCERN score (minimum–maximum: 16–75), Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) score (minimum–maximum: 0–4), and Global Quality score (minimum–maximum: 0–5), and view rate formulas were calculated for each video. A total of the best 49 videos were evaluated in our study. The total number of views of these videos was 10,938,976. The total duration of these videos was 409minutes. The average duration of the videos was 8.35±8.38 (standard deviation [SD]). There was no significant (p>0.05) correlation between the measurement of DISCERN scores of the two observers. A significant (p<0.05) difference was observed between the JAMA score measurements of the two observers. There was no significant difference (p>0.05) between the GQS score measurements of the two observers. Currently, YouTube is not a viable resource for patients to learn about blepharoplasty. Physicians should be aware of the limitations and provide up-to-date and peer-reviewed content on the web site, and patients should also be warned about obtaining information.

Note

The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.


Authors' Contributions

All authors were involved in the conception and design of this study. F.S. and E.S.E. wrote the analysis plan. F.S. and E.S.E. conducted the search, screened all videos for eligibility and performed quality assessment, and data extraction. F.S. analyzed and interpreted the data. E.S.E. wrote the drafts of the manuscript and all other authors critically revised the different versions of the manuscript. Moreover, all authors were involved in discussing the results and interpreting the findings. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.




Publication History

Article published online:
13 September 2022

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