BAHADIR ERMEÇ, AHMET SEMİH GÜLESER, BURÇİN TUNÇ, MEHET GÖKHAN ÇULHA, FATİH ALTUNRENDE
Comprehensive Medicine - 2023;15(4):335-338
INTRODUCTION: Our study aims to evaluate the content, reliability, and quality of the videos on urostomy bag care training on YouTube. METHODS: This study was conducted in descriptive English language to evaluate the content, reliability, and quality of the Internet videos about urostomy education. A video search was performed on YouTube with the terms “urostomy, bladder ca, and ileal loop”. The contents of the selected videos were analyzed by 2 independent experts in the field. The DISCERN questionnaire was used to analyze the reliability of the video, and the global quality score (GQS) was used for the quality of the video. Results: As a result of the search with keywords, 41 videos were examined. Of these, 28 (68.3%) were useful and 13 (31.7%) were misleading videos. When the videos were examined, the mean score of intelligibility of useful videos was 7.61±1.36, the mean DISCERN score was 4.18±0.78, and the mean GQS was 4.23±1.12. The mean comprehensiveness scores, average DISCERN scores, and average GQS of the helpful videos were found to be statistically significantly lower than the useful urostomy videos. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: It has been seen that many YouTube videos for urostomy education are useful videos and are created by urostomy companies.
