Can You Trust What You Watch? An Assessment of the Quality of Information in Aesthetic Surgery Videos on YouTube.

Gray, Megan C; Gemmiti, Amanda; Ata, Ashar; Jun, Brandon; Johnson, Philip K; Ricci, Joseph A; Patel, Ashit

Can You Trust What You Watch? An Assessment of the Quality of Information in Aesthetic Surgery Videos on YouTube.

dc.contributor.author	Gray, Megan C
dc.contributor.author	Gemmiti, Amanda
dc.contributor.author	Ata, Ashar
dc.contributor.author	Jun, Brandon
dc.contributor.author	Johnson, Philip K
dc.contributor.author	Ricci, Joseph A
dc.contributor.author	Patel, Ashit
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-03T12:01:13Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-03T12:01:13Z
dc.date.issued	2020-02
dc.date.updated	2023-04-03T12:01:12Z
dc.description.abstract	Background Videos on YouTube can be posted without regulation or content oversight. Unfortunately, many patients use YouTube as a resource on aesthetic surgery, leading to misinformation. Currently, there are no objective assessments of the quality of information on YouTube about aesthetic surgery. Methods YouTube was queried for videos about the 12 most common aesthetic surgical procedures, identified from the 2015 American Society of Plastic Surgeons procedural statistics between May and June of 2016. The top 25 results for each search term were scored using the modified Ensuring Quality Information for Patients criteria based on video structure, content, and author identification. Average Ensuring Quality Information for Patients score, view count, and video duration were compared between authorship groups. Results A total of 523 videos were graded after excluding duplicates. The mean modified Ensuring Quality Information for Patients score for all videos was 13.1 (SE, 0.18) of a possible 27. The videos under the search "nose reshaping" had the lowest mean score of 10.24 (SE, 0.74), whereas "breast augmentation" had the highest score of 15.96 (SE, 0.65). Physician authorship accounted for 59 percent of included videos and had a higher mean Ensuring Quality Information for Patients score than those by patients. Only three of the 21 search terms had a mean modified Ensuring Quality Information for Patients score meeting criteria for high-quality videos. Conclusions The information contained in aesthetic surgery videos on YouTube is low quality. Patients should be aware that the information has the potential to be inaccurate. Plastic surgeons should be encouraged to develop high-quality videos to educate patients.
dc.identifier	00006534-202002000-00025
dc.identifier.issn	0032-1052
dc.identifier.issn	1529-4242
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10161/26973
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
dc.relation.ispartof	Plastic and reconstructive surgery
dc.relation.isversionof	10.1097/prs.0000000000006463
dc.subject	Humans
dc.subject	Information Dissemination
dc.subject	Surgery, Plastic
dc.subject	Internet
dc.subject	Video Recording
dc.subject	United States
dc.subject	Patient Education as Topic
dc.title	Can You Trust What You Watch? An Assessment of the Quality of Information in Aesthetic Surgery Videos on YouTube.
dc.type	Journal article
duke.contributor.orcid	Patel, Ashit\|0000-0002-8384-190X
pubs.begin-page	329e
pubs.end-page	336e
pubs.issue	2
pubs.organisational-group	Duke
pubs.organisational-group	School of Medicine
pubs.organisational-group	Clinical Science Departments
pubs.organisational-group	Surgery
pubs.organisational-group	Surgery, Plastic, Maxillofacial, and Oral Surgery
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	145