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1. Skills and key education needed for clinical librarians: an
exploratory study from the librarians' perspectives.
2. The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis-A time
when 'just google it' is no longer enough.
3. Exploring Chemical Information in PubChem.
4. Letter: mind the gap - search and publication date of systematic
reviews and meta-analysis.
5. Letter: mind the gap-search and publication date of systematic reviews
and meta-analysis. Authors' reply.
6. Information overload challenges pandemic control.
7. Information retrieval in an infodemic: the case of COVID-19
publications.
8. Understanding Online Health Risk Information Seeking and Avoiding
during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
9. An automated approach to identify scientific publications reporting
pharmacokinetic parameters.
10. Information in Spanish on YouTube about Covid-19 vaccines.
11. Misinformation Exposure and Acceptance: The Role of Information
Seeking and Processing.
12. Online health information seeking, health literacy, and human
papillomavirus vaccination among transgender and gender-diverse people.
13. Quality of the Italian Websites for Parental Guidance on the
Indications for Tonsillectomy in Children.
14. Quality Assessment of Online Resources for the Most Common Cancers.
15. Readability of the American, Canadian, and British
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Societies' Patient Materials.
16. Evaluation of the quality of information available on the internet on
vaginal meshes.
17. YouTube as a platform for knowledge and awareness of peritoneal
dialysis: A content analysis.
18. Characteristics of YouTube Videos About Peripheral Artery Disease
During COVID-19 Pandemic.
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BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2021 Aug 09. 21(1): 240
1. Skills and key education needed for clinical librarians: an
exploratory study from the librarians' perspectives.
Maryam Zarghani, Leila Nemati-Anaraki, Zahra Dinpajoo, Arezo Ghamgosar,
Sedegheh Khani, Maryam Khazaee-Pool
BACKGROUND: A clinical librarian is a member of the medical team in many
countries. To strengthen this new job, librarians need to acquire
professional skills in order to provide information services to medical
staff. In this study, we aimed to explor the skills required for the
presence of a clinical librarian in the treatment team.
METHODS: In this study, we sonducted a qualitative study in which 15
experienced librarians were interviewed in connection with information
services. Also, a treatment team was involved in this study using
purposive-convenience and snowball sampling methods. The data collection
tool was a semi-structured interview that continued until the data was
saturated; finally the data analysis was performed using thematic analysis.
RESULTS: Out of the total interviews, 158 primary codes and, 107 main codes
were extracted in 25 subclasses. After careful evaluation and integration of
subclasses and classes, they were finally classified into 13 categories and
four main themes, namely clinical librarian's role, professional and
specialized skills, communication skills, and training programs.
CONCLUSION: The results showed that specialized skills and training programs
for the clinical librarian are defined based on his/her duties in the
treatment team. We also defined the most important key skills for the
clinical librarian in two categories of professional and communication
skills such as specialized information search, content production, resource
management, familiarity with various sources related to evidence-based
medicine, teamwork, and effective communication. To acquire these skills,
officials and policy-makers should develop and implement related educational
programs at medical universities and colleges.
Keywords: Clinical Librarian—specialized skills; Clinical librarianship;
Professional skills
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-021-01601-y
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34372841
Res Synth Methods. 2021 Aug 10.
2. The age of abundant scholarly information and its synthesis-A time
when 'just google it' is no longer enough.
Michael Gusenbauer
Academic research has changed in recent years. It has entered the age of
abundant scholarly information. New scientometric data shows impressive
increases in both the quantity and quality of information researchers
produce. Since 2007 about the same number of publications have become
accessible on databases as more than the hundred years prior. At the same
time, evidence synthesis has become key in making this wealth of information
understandable and useful. Researchers need to be increasingly proficient in
identifying relevant information - to be able to build on an increasingly
comprehensive research base and to adhere to rising standards in evidence
synthesis. Both these requirements make a 'true partnership between
librarians and researchers' in demand like never before. This article is
protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Abundance of scholarly information; Conduct and reporting
guidance; Evidence synthesis; Librarians; Search literacy; Systematic
reviews and meta-analyses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jrsm.1520
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34378322
Curr Protoc. 2021 Aug;1(8): e217
3. Exploring Chemical Information in PubChem.
Sunghwan Kim
PubChem (https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) is a public chemical database
that serves scientific communities as well as the general public. This
database collects chemical information from hundreds of data sources and
organizes them into multiple data collections, including Substance,
Compound, BioAssay, Protein, Gene, Pathway, and Patent. These collections
are interlinked with each other, allowing users to discover related records
in the various collections (e.g., drugs targeting a protein or genes
modulated by a chemical). PubChem can be searched by keyword (e.g., a
chemical, protein, or gene name) as well as by chemical structure. The input
structure can be provided using popular line notations or drawn with the
PubChem Sketcher. PubChem supports various types of structure searches,
including identity search, 2-D and 3-D similarity searches, and substructure
and superstructure searches. Results from multiple searches can be combined
using Boolean operators (i.e., AND, OR, and NOT) to formulate complex
queries. PubChem allows the user to quickly retrieve a list of records
annotated with a particular classification or ontological term. This paper
provides step-by-step instructions on how to explore PubChem data with
examples of commonly requested tasks. © 2021. This article is a U.S.
Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. Current Protocols
published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Basic Protocol 1: Finding genes and
proteins that interact with a given compound Basic Protocol 2: Finding
drug-like compounds similar to a query compound through a two-dimensional
(2-D) similarity search Basic Protocol 3: Finding compounds similar to a
query compound through a three-dimensional (3-D) similarity search Support
Protocol: Computing similarity scores between compounds Basic Protocol 4:
Getting the bioactivity data for the hit compounds from substructure search
Basic Protocol 5: Finding drugs that target a particular gene Basic Protocol
6: Getting bioactivity data of all chemicals tested against a protein. Basic
Protocol 7: Finding compounds annotated with classifications or ontological
terms Basic Protocol 8: Finding stereoisomers and isotopomers of a compound
through identity search.
Keywords: PubChem; chemical structure search; cheminformatics; drug
discovery; molecular similarity; public database
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.217
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34370395
Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Sep;54(5): 730-732
4. Letter: mind the gap - search and publication date of systematic
reviews and meta-analysis.
Agastya Patel, Piotr Spychalski, Jarek Kobiela
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16537
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34379833
Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2021 Sep;54(5): 733
5. Letter: mind the gap-search and publication date of systematic reviews
and meta-analysis. Authors' reply.
Elizabeth M Salvo-Halloran, Nicole C Ferko, Sarah B Cash, Ailish Gonzalez,
Peter J Kahrilas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/apt.16542
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34379838
CMAJ. 2021 Aug 09. 193(31): E1222-E1223
6. Information overload challenges pandemic control.
Diana Duong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.1095955
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34373273
J Med Internet Res. 2021 Aug 05.
7. Information retrieval in an infodemic: the case of COVID-19
publications.
Douglas Teodoro, Sohrab Ferdowsi, Nikolay Borissov, Elham Kashani, David
Vicente Alvarez, Jenny Copara, Racha Gouareb, Nona Naderi, Poorya Amini
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) global health crisis has led
to an exponential surge in the published scientific literature. In the
attempt to tackle the pandemic, extremely large COVID-19-related corpora are
being created, sometimes with inaccurate information, which is no longer at
scale of human analyses.
OBJECTIVE: In the context of searching for scientific evidence in the deluge
of COVID-19-related literature, we present an information retrieval
methodology for effective identification of relevant sources to answer
biomedical queries posed using natural language.
METHODS: Our multi-stage retrieval methodology combines probabilistic
weighting models and re-ranking algorithms based on deep neural
architectures to boost the ranking of relevant documents. Similarity of
COVID-19 queries are compared to documents and a series of post-processing
methods are applied to the initial ranking list to improve the match between
the query and the biomedical information source and boost the position of
relevant documents.
RESULTS: The methodology was evaluated in the context of the TREC-COVID
challenge, achieving competitive results with the top-ranking teams
participating in the competition. Particularly, the combination of
bag-of-words and deep neural language models significantly outperformed a
BM25-based baseline, retrieving on average 83% of relevant documents in the
top 20.
CONCLUSIONS: These results indicate that multi-stage retrieval supported by
deep learning could enhance identification of literature for
COVID-19-related questions posed using natural language.
CLINICALTRIAL:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2196/30161
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34375298
Health Commun. 2021 Aug 11. 1-11
8. Understanding Online Health Risk Information Seeking and Avoiding
during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Xin Zhou, Anthony J Roberto, Anya Hommadova Lu
This study tested the utility of the Risk Information Seeking and Processing
(RISP) model in understanding why people seek or avoid online information
about COVID-19. Data collected at three different time points (i.e.,
February, April, and May 2020) showed the measured RISP model constructs
explained between 70-78.8% of the variance for information seeking, and
between 36.9-62.5% of the variance for information avoiding. Specifically,
fear, information insufficiency, and relevant channel beliefs consistently
predicted information seeking. Further, information insufficiency and
relevant channel beliefs consistently predicted information avoidance.
However, fear had no association with information avoidance. Longitudinally,
the study found that within individuals, there were larger increases in most
RISP model constructs between Time 1 and Time 2, and smaller changes
occurred from Time 2 to Time 3. However, there was no significant change in
information seeking over time.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1958981
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34380338
Wellcome Open Res. 2021 ;6 88
9. An automated approach to identify scientific publications reporting
pharmacokinetic parameters.
Ferran Gonzalez Hernandez, Simon J Carter, Juha Iso-Sipilä, Paul Goldsmith,
Ahmed A Almousa, Silke Gastine, Watjana Lilaonitkul, Frank Kloprogge,
Joseph F Standing
Pharmacokinetic (PK) predictions of new chemical entities are aided by prior
knowledge from other compounds. The development of robust algorithms that
improve preclinical and clinical phases of drug development remains
constrained by the need to search, curate and standardise PK information
across the constantly-growing scientific literature. The lack of
centralised, up-to-date and comprehensive repositories of PK data represents
a significant limitation in the drug development pipeline.In this work, we
propose a machine learning approach to automatically identify and
characterise scientific publications reporting PK parameters from in vivo
data, providing a centralised repository of PK literature. A dataset of
4,792 PubMed publications was labelled by field experts depending on whether
in vivo PK parameters were estimated in the study. Different classification
pipelines were compared using a bootstrap approach and the best-performing
architecture was used to develop a comprehensive and automatically-updated
repository of PK publications. The best-performing architecture encoded
documents using unigram features and mean pooling of BioBERT embeddings
obtaining an F1 score of 83.8% on the test set. The pipeline retrieved over
121K PubMed publications in which in vivo PK parameters were estimated and
it was scheduled to perform weekly updates on newly published articles. All
the relevant documents were released through a publicly available web
interface (https://app.pkpdai.com) and characterised by the drugs, species
and conditions mentioned in the abstract, to facilitate the subsequent
search of relevant PK data. This automated, open-access repository can be
used to accelerate the search and comparison of PK results, curate ADME
datasets, and facilitate subsequent text mining tasks in the PK domain.
Keywords: Bioinformatics; Information extraction; Machine Learning;
Natural Language Processing; Pharmacokinetics; Pharmacometrics; Text mining
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16718.1
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34381873
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2021 Aug 10. 1-6
10. Information in Spanish on YouTube about Covid-19 vaccines.
Ignacio Hernández-García, Irene Gascón-Giménez, Alba Gascón-Giménez, Teresa
Giménez-Júlvez
Our objective was to analyze the sources, characteristics, tone, and content
of the most viewed YouTube videos in Spanish about Covid-19 vaccines. In
February 2021, a search was carried out on YouTube using the terms "Vacuna
Covid," "Vacuna coronavirus," and "Vacuna Covid19." Associations between
tone, source, and others variables (e.g. number of views or dislikes) were
studied with a Mann-Whitney U-test and a chi-square test. A total of 118
videos were analyzed; 63.6% were originated from Mexico and the USA; media
created 57.6% of the videos. Positive tone was observed in 53.4%. The most
discussed topics were target groups for vaccination (38.9%) and safety
(43.2%). The 68 videos produced by media accumulated 31,565,295 views (55.0%
of views), and the 19 videos created by health professionals obtained
10,742,825 views (18.7% of views). A significantly smaller number of likes
was obtained in videos of media compared to those created by health
professionals (p = .004). Videos made by health professionals, compared to
those of media, showed a greater positive tone (OR = 3.09).
Hoaxes/conspiracy theories were identified in 1.7% of the videos. Monitoring
that the information on YouTube about Covid-19 vaccines is reliable should
be a central part of Covid-19 vaccination campaigns.
Keywords: Covid-19 vaccines; Spanish; YouTube; evaluation; information
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/21645515.2021.1957416
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34375570
Health Commun. 2021 Aug 11. 1-9
11. Misinformation Exposure and Acceptance: The Role of Information
Seeking and Processing.
Yoori Hwang, Se-Hoon Jeong
The present study tests and extends the RISP model (a) by applying the model
in the context of COVID-19 in South Korea and (b) by examining the impacts
of information seeking and processing on misinformation exposure and
acceptance. Based on a survey of 346 Korean adults, this study showed that
information avoidance, but not information seeking, was a positive predictor
of misinformation exposure. In addition, heuristic processing, but not
systematic processing, moderated the relationship between misinformation
exposure and misinformation acceptance, such that the relationship between
misinformation exposure and misinformation acceptance was stronger among
those who showed greater tendency for heuristic processing. In addition,
information insufficiency was a negative predictor of both information
avoidance and heuristic processing. Theoretical and practical implications
are discussed.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1964187
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34376089
J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 Aug 12. pii: ocab150. [Epub ahead of print]
12. Online health information seeking, health literacy, and human
papillomavirus vaccination among transgender and gender-diverse people.
Anthony T Pho, Suzanne Bakken, Mitchell R Lunn, Micah E Lubensky, Annesa
Flentje, Zubin Dastur, Juno Obedin-Maliver
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to describe online health
information seeking among a sample of transgender and gender diverse (TGD)
people compared with cisgender sexual minority people to explore
associations with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination, and whether
general health literacy and eHealth literacy moderate this relationship.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional online survey of TGD
and cisgender sexual minority participants from The PRIDE Study, a
longitudinal, U.S.-based, national health study of sexual and gender
minority people. We employed multivariable logistic regression to model the
association of online health information seeking and HPV vaccination.
RESULTS: The online survey yielded 3258 responses. Compared with cisgender
sexual minority participants, TGD had increased odds of reporting HPV
vaccination (aOR, 1.5; 95% CI, 1.1-2.2) but decreased odds when they had
looked for information about vaccines online (aOR, 0.7; 95% CI, 0.5-0.9).
TGD participants had over twice the odds of reporting HPV vaccination if
they visited a social networking site like Facebook (aOR, 2.4; 95% CI,
1.1-5.6). No moderating effects from general or eHealth literacy were
observed.
DISCUSSION: Decreased reporting of HPV vaccination among TGD people after
searching for vaccine information online suggests vaccine hesitancy, which
may potentially be related to the quality of online content. Increased
reporting of vaccination after using social media may be related to peer
validation.
CONCLUSIONS: Future studies should investigate potential deterrents to HPV
vaccination in online health information to enhance its effectiveness and
further explore which aspects of social media might increase vaccine uptake
among TGD people.
Keywords: health literacy; information seeking behavior; papillomavirus
vaccines; sexual and gender minorities; transgender persons
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocab150
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34383916
Int Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2021 Jul;25(3): e446-e452
13. Quality of the Italian Websites for Parental Guidance on the
Indications for Tonsillectomy in Children.
Camila de Castro Corrêa, Sofia Prata Piña, Melania Evangelisti, Maria Pia
Villa, Silke Anna Theresa Weber
Introduction The quality of information on websites about tonsillectomy
regarding the knowledge level may be low. Tonsillectomy is a surgical
procedure to hypertrophy of the palatine and pharyngeal tonsils. So, it is
an invasive procedure with possible complications, which creates insecurity
in parents. Significantly, Internet searches have been increased to address
possible health concerns, questioning the quality of websites about
tonsillectomy. Objective To evaluate the readability, reliability, and
comprehensiveness of the Italian websites dedicated to parental guidance
regarding the indications for tonsillectomy in children. Methods The search
engine google.it was used to search the websites. The Gulpease index, which
is a widely used readability formula ranging from 0 (difficult) to 100 (easy
readability), was employed to evaluate these websites. The Health on the Net
Code of Conduct (HONcode) was used to assess the quality of information, by
taking ethical principles into account, with values ranging from 0 to 13.
The content comprehensiveness of the web pages was assessed by assigning
points ranging from 1 (very insufficient) to 5 (very satisfying) to each
page. A final comparison with previous studies on tonsillectomy published on
websites from other countries was performed. Results Fourteen Italian
websites were selected, and the Gulpease index showed a mean average of
40.77 ± 8.45. The mean of the HONcode analysis was 6.00 ± 1.92, in which the
principles with the poorest scores were Attribution and Update . As far as
the comprehensiveness of the websites is concerned, the resulting mean was
2.57 ± 0.77, in which Indications was the topic with the highest mean,
whereas Benefits was the one with the lowest. Conclusion The Italian
websites were characterized by a lower readability level, a middle position
regarding ethical principles, and the same (insufficient) comprehensiveness
of tonsillectomy when compared with websites from different countries.
Keywords: internet; patient information; patient portals; readability;
tonsillectomy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1716569
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34377183
J Cancer Educ. 2021 Aug 08.
14. Quality Assessment of Online Resources for the Most Common Cancers.
Jim Zhang Hao Li, Timothy Kong, Veronika Killow, Lisa Wang, Kevin Kobes,
Ara Tekian, Paris-Ann Ingledew
The internet is a common source of health information for patients with
cancer. Despite research surrounding the quality of online resources for
individual types of cancer, these results may not necessarily be easily
extrapolated to cancer resources as a whole. Thus, we aim to use a
standardized tool to produce generalizable results by analyzing the quality
of online resources for the most common cancers. Educational websites
pertaining to breast, lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers were searched
using multiple search engines. After screening against pre-specified
inclusion criteria, the most visible 100 websites for each cancer were
extracted for analysis. A validated tool was then used to assess their
quality. Pooled results were evaluated using descriptive and inferential
statistics. Of the 400 analyzed websites, 43% were commercially affiliated,
and these were significantly associated with greater use of biased language.
Thirty percent of websites disclosed authorship, 47% cited at least one
reliable source, and 43% were updated within the last 2 years. The average
Flesch-Kincaid readability was determined to be at a grade 10.9 level, which
is significantly more difficult than the recommended grade 6 level. Risk
factors, symptoms, and detection were the most accurately covered topics.
However, most websites did not cover prognosis. This study comprehensively
examines the quality of online cancer resources for the four most common
cancers. Our results could help guide the development of future resources,
support patient education endeavors, and raise awareness among healthcare
providers about the limitations of online cancer resources.
Keywords: Breast cancer; Colorectal cancer; Lung cancer; Online health
information; Patient education; Prostate cancer; Quality assessment
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-021-02075-2
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34365589
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2021 Aug 10. 1945998211033254
15. Readability of the American, Canadian, and British
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Societies' Patient Materials.
Joo Hyun Kim, Elysia Grose, Justine Philteos, David Forner, Christopher W
Noel, Vincent Wu, Antoine Eskander
OBJECTIVE: Patient education materials across 3 national English
otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (OHNS) societies: the American Academy
of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS), the Canadian Society of
Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (CSOHNS), and Ear, Nose, and Throat
United Kingdom (ENT UK) were examined to determine whether they are written
at a level suitable for patient comprehension.
STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional study.
SETTING: Online patient materials presented through OHNS national societies.
METHODS: Readability was calculated using the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level,
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease Score, and Simple Measure of Gobbledygook Index.
All public patient education materials available through the CSOHNS,
AAO-HNS, and ENT UK websites were assessed. Patient education materials were
grouped into categories by subspecialty.
RESULTS: In total, 128 patient materials from the 3 societies were included
in the study. All 3 societies required a minimum grade 9 reading
comprehension level to understand their online materials. According to
Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, the CSOHNS required a significantly higher
reading grade level to comprehend the materials presented when compared to
AAO-HNS (11.3 vs 9.9; 95% CI, 0.5-2.4; P < .01) and ENT UK (11.3 vs 9.4; 95%
CI, 0.9-2.9; P < .01). Patient education materials related to rhinology were
the least readable among all 3 societies.
CONCLUSION: This study suggests that the reading level of the current
patient materials presented through 3 national OHNS societies are written at
a level that exceeds current recommendations. Promisingly, it highlights an
improvement for the readability of patient materials presented through the
AAO-HNS.
Keywords: health literacy; otolaryngology; patient education; readability
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/01945998211033254
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34372717
Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol. 2021 Jul 31. pii: S0301-2115(21)00399-7.
16. Evaluation of the quality of information available on the internet on
vaginal meshes.
Mariana Furtado Meinberg, Wladmir Cardoso Brandão, Rogéria Andrade Werneck,
Michael Zarnowski Passos, Agnaldo Lopes da Silva-Filho
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the quality of
information on the internet about vaginal meshes available to the general
population.
STUDY DESIGN: The terms "vaginal sling," "sling vagina," "vaginal mesh,"
"mesh vagina," "vaginal tape," and "tape vagina" were used every time on
three major search engines, and the first 10 websites retrieved by each
search engine were selected and evaluated using the DISCERN questionnaire.
The websites were divided into four categories based on the type of agency
that created the website. These included websites created by private health
institutions, non-private health institutions, and non-health institutions
and websites for encyclopedias, libraries, articles and scientific papers.
They were compared in terms of the reliability, information quality, and
total DISCERN score.
RESULTS: The survey yielded 98 different websites; after applying the
exclusion criteria, 62 sites were selected. Websites for articles,
magazines, libraries, and encyclopedias and those by non-private health
services had significantly high scores for the reliability dimension of the
DISCERN tool as compared to the other two website categories (p < 0.05).
Regarding the quality of information, websites for non-specific health
services and those for articles, magazines, libraries, and encyclopedias
presented significantly lower scores as compared to the other two website
categories. Websites for non-specific health services had significantly
lower average total DISCERN points when compared to other website
categories. The websites for private health services and those for articles,
magazines, libraries, and encyclopedias had significantly lower DISCERN
scores than the websites for non-private health services did.
CONCLUSION: Our findings showed that the quality of information regarding
vaginal meshes on the first 10 websites on major search engines was moderate.
Keywords: Evaluation; Internet; Quality of information; Vaginal mesh
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejogrb.2021.07.055
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34365137
Perit Dial Int. 2021 Aug 09. 8968608211035947
17. YouTube as a platform for knowledge and awareness of peritoneal
dialysis: A content analysis.
Hasan Haci Yeter, Omer Faruk Akcay
BACKGROUND: One of the main barriers to choosing peritoneal dialysis (PD) is
the lack of awareness and PD knowledge. There is an increasing trend in the
use of the internet as a search tool for health-related information. This
study aims to determine how useful YouTube videos are to get information
about PD.
METHODS: YouTube videos were evaluated independently by two nephrologists.
The videos' quality was assessed with DISCERN scoring system, global quality
score (GQS) and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
scoring system. We determined the quartile (Q) of the videos as follows:
most reliable top 25% videos Q1 and others Q2-4.
RESULTS: A total of 295 videos were evaluated. University or society-sourced
videos made up 15% (n = 43) of all videos, and healthcare providers were the
primary target audience compared to patients (p < 0.001). JAMA, GQS and
DISCERN scores were significantly higher for the videos that were targeted
healthcare providers compared to the patients (p < 0.001, for all). A total
of 34% of the videos in Q1 were obtained from the university or society.
Nevertheless, only 17% of the videos prepared for the patients were among
the Q1. A small number of videos mentioned that PD maintains the residual
kidney function (RKF) longer compared to haemodialysis.
CONCLUSIONS: Universities and societies should upload videos to provide
easy-to-understand information on PD. Also, the important benefits of PD,
like the preservation of RKF, should be further highlighted in these videos.
It may increase the PD penetrance by increasing patients' awareness.
Keywords: Awareness; YouTube; internet; knowledge; peritoneal dialysis;
video
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08968608211035947
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34369832
Cureus. 2021 Jul;13(7): e16203
18. Characteristics of YouTube Videos About Peripheral Artery Disease
During COVID-19 Pandemic.
Corc Baytaroglu, Emrah Sevgili
INTRODUCTION: To examine English language YouTube videos that covered both
COVID-19 and peripheral artery disease (PAD).
METHODS: The research was planned from October 1 to 5, 2020. Two
cardiologists (CB and ES) executed online searches in which the term
COVID-19/coronavirus was paired with common keywords about PAD, including
'peripheral artery disease + COVID-19,' 'leg pain + coronavirus,' 'leg
vascular disease + COVID-19,' 'atherosclerosis + COVID-19,' and
'claudication + coronavirus.' For each video, a record was made of the
number of days on YouTube, length, number of views and comments, and the
number of 'likes' and 'dislikes'. Videos were also categorized according to
content as informative videos (with accurate content about the frequency of
disease, symptoms, transmission, prevention techniques, and proven treatment
methods), patient experience videos (with patient testimonies), or news
update videos (i.e., those uploaded by professional news channels).
Moreover, DISCERN and Medical Information and Content Index (MICI) were
evaluated.
RESULTS: Totally, 91 YouTube videos met study inclusion criteria. News
update videos were the most-watched when compared with informative and
patient experience videos (63,910 views vs 43,725 views vs19,778 views,
p=0.032). The DISCERN score was significantly higher in the informative
group: 2.8 for informative videos, 1.7 for patients' experience videos, and
1.8 for news update videos (p= 0.001). The most common theme was clinical
symptoms in the informative videos (82.4%). The mean MICI score was
calculated as 3.7±1.4 points for informative videos.
CONCLUSION: YouTube videos about COVID-19 and PAD are widely-viewed
information sources for patients. Our study has demonstrated that YouTube
videos about COVID-19 and PAD generally had poor quality content.
Keywords: covid-19; discern score; mici; peripheral artery disease; youtube
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16203
URL: http://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34367806
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