Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Coverage on YouTube

Lingual orthodontic treatment: A YouTube™ video analysis

“…Thirty-two (31.0%) and 72 (69.0%) videos were included in the high-content and low-content groups, respectively. Compared to the low-content group, the high-content video group had a higher mean number of views (19,867.41 vs 6720.08, P ¼ .002), ''likes'' (135.88 vs 13.01, P , .001), ''dislikes'' (4.34 vs 0.81, P , .001), and ''comments'' (26.28 vs 5.31, P ¼ .002). There was no difference in the total VIQI score between the groups (P ¼ .009) ( Table 4).…”

“…There are studies evaluating online information about different fields, such as chronic diseases, including epilepsy 16 and multiple sclerosis 17 ; medical issues, such as the spread of epidemic diseases 18 or human papilloma virus 19 ; as well as root canal treatment, 20 dental implants, 21 and dental anxiety, 22 all of which are related more closely to dentistry. The level of content of videos in the field of orthodontics on YouTubee and posts on other social media tools have been assessed in previous studies.…”

Características de los vídeos en español publicados en Youtube sobre la vacuna contra el virus del papiloma humano

“…Tres de los investigadores visionaron de manera independiente los vídeos resultantes de la selección final y valoraron sus contenidos clasificándolos como positivos o negativos según la presentación que efectuaban de la vacunación frente al VPH. Se utilizó una metodología similar a la utilizada por Ache et al 18 , incluyendo un análisis de concordancia (índice Kappa) entre los distintos evaluadores que no obtuvo discrepancias (100% de acuerdo K=1,0).…”

Informational value and bias of videos related to orthodontics screened on a video-sharing Web site

“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Recent research has revealed that social networks and video-sharing Internet platforms are gaining importance and influence in relation to medical matters and opinion formation by laypersons, 2 particularly adolescent users. 8 Whereas previous analyses have established the value of such videos as a source of useful information regarding chronic diseases such as epilepsy 3 or multiple sclerosis, 9 another aspect of the value of the Internet is the speed with which information about outbreaks of epidemic diseases, such as H1N1 influenza, 10 or contemporary issues and concerns, such as how human papilloma virus 11 is spread. For those with no access to research data or who are not familiar with such databases as PubMed (www.…”