The migraine landscape on YouTube: A review of YouTube as a source of information on migraine

Cephalalgia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 1363-1369
Author(s):  
Hillah Saffi ◽  
Thien Phu Do ◽  
Jakob Møller Hansen ◽  
David W Dodick ◽  
Messoud Ashina
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Management ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
International Headache Society ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
The Public ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality And Reliability ◽  
Source Of Information

Introduction YouTube is the most widely used video hosting website in the world; however, the quality and reliability of information is unknown. The aim of this study is to evaluate the content and distribution of the most popular videos on YouTube about migraine. Methods We searched for migraine-related videos on the online video hosting resource YouTube ( http://youtube.com/ ). Two authors screened the titles and video descriptions independently for all videos with a view count of ≥ 10,000 views. For each video we recorded descriptive data, the source/author and the primary purpose/content. Results We identified 351 eligible videos. In total, there was more than 3 days of content viewed more than 163 million times. Only 9% of these videos were authored by healthcare professionals. The majority (44%) of videos focused on complementary and alternative medicine. Discussion YouTube provides a wide array of easily accessible information on migraine, ranging from authoritative sources to potentially questionable content. If used uncritically, this may result in inadequate clinical management. Peer-reviewed information on migraine mechanisms and treatment is needed to provide the best available evidence for the public and patients. Ideally, a professional society or foundation such as the International Headache Society would develop, curate, and distribute content.

scholarly journals The “Obiettivo Antibiotico” Campaign on Prudent Use of Antibiotics in Sicily, Italy: The Pilot Phase

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 3077 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Barchitta ◽  
Annalisa Quattrocchi ◽  
Andrea Maugeri ◽  
Maria Clara La Rosa ◽  
Claudia La Mastra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Antimicrobial Resistance ◽  
General Public ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
World Health ◽  
Pilot Phase ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

The issue of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a focus of the World Health Organization, which proposes educational interventions targeting the public and healthcare professionals. Here, we present the first attempt at a regionwide multicomponent campaign in Sicily (Italy), called “Obiettivo Antibiotico”, which aims to raise the awareness of prudent use of antibiotics in the public and in healthcare professionals. The campaign was designed by an interdisciplinary academic team, and an interactive website was populated with different materials, including key messages, letters, slogans, posters, factsheets, leaflets, and videos. The campaign was launched in November 2018 and, as of 21 December 2018, the website had a total of 1159 unique visitors, of which 190 became champions by pledging to take simple actions to support the fight against AMR. Data from social media showed that the audience was between 18 and 54 years of age, with a high proportion of female participants (64%). Interestingly, the LinkedIn page received more than 1200 followers, and Facebook 685 followers. The number of actions taken (pledges) by the audience was 458, evenly divided between experts (53%) and the general public (47%). Additional efforts are needed to reach more people, thus future efforts should focus on further promotion within the Sicilian region to sustain the engagement with the campaign.

The periodic table: icon and inspiration

2015 ◽  
Vol 373 (2037) ◽  
pp. 20140211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyn Poliakoff ◽  
Samantha Tang
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Table ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Educational Resource ◽  
Online Video ◽  
The Public ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
The World

To start this discussion meeting on the new chemistry of the elements held on 12 May 2014, Martyn Poliakoff, Foreign Secretary of the Royal Society, was invited to give the opening remarks. As a chemist and a presenter of the popular online video channel ‘The periodic table of videos’, Martyn communicates his personal and professional interest in the elements to the public, who in turn use these videos both as an educational resource and for entertainment purposes. Ever since Mendeleev’s first ideas for the periodic table were published in 1869, the table has continued to grow as new elements have been discovered, and it serves as both icon and inspiration; its form is now so well established that it is recognized the world over as a symbol for science. This paper highlights but a few of the varied forms that the table can take, such as an infographic, which can convey the shortage of certain elements with great impact.

scholarly journals Quality and Reliability of Halitosis Videos on YouTube as a Source of Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Atik Ramadhani ◽  
Zenobia Zettira ◽  
Yuanita Lely Rachmawati ◽  
Ninuk Hariyani ◽  
Diah Ayu Maharani
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Common Condition ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Interaction Index ◽  
Content Quality ◽  
Quality And Reliability ◽  
Source Category ◽  
Source Of Information

Halitosis is a common condition that adversely affects quality of life. Through YouTube, people access oral health information. This study aimed to analyze the quality and comprehensiveness of the content, and reliability of halitosis videos hosted on YouTube. In total, 300 videos were collected based on three search keywords, and the number of likes, dislikes, views, duration, interaction index, viewing rate, and source category. Subsequently, the video score, which represents the content quality and comprehensiveness was used to categorize videos as poor, good, and excellent. DISCERN score was used to assess video reliability. Of the 105 videos analyzed, 68 (64.8%) were uploaded by personal users. In general, videos were categorized as poor and have low reliability. Videos sourced from healthcare professionals showed the highest quality, comprehensiveness of the content, and reliability (p < 0.05). There was no difference in the number of viewers for video duration less than or more than 4 min (p > 0.05). YouTube users prefer low-quality videos over high-quality ones, indicating that viewers cannot differentiate between reliable and potentially biased content. It is critical to enable viewers to critically assimilate information hosted on YouTube to make effective oral healthcare decisions.

scholarly journals The functioning of information system in the society of the Second modern in conditions of military conflict

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-117
Author(s):  
Olha Yurko
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Source Of Information

The features of functioning of information system in the society of the Second modern in conditions of military conflict are analyzed in the article. Also we tried to analyze connection of this features with characteristics of the political and economic systems of this type of society. Television continues to be the main source of information about state of affairs in Ukraine and in the world, although it’s influence is decreasing. The concentration of media ownership in the hands of financial and industrial groups, associated with political forces, is an important issue. Online media and social networks are the second among the sources of information about state of affairs in Ukraine and in the world. Their increasing influence raises the question of the power of large internet companies, who have the ability to control information flows, provide an opportunity to use the information aggregated by them for the application of specific political technologies of influence on the public sphere. These companies are out of control of the regulatory mechanisms of state institutions in most countries, which creates vulnerabilities in the public sphere of nation-states to influence from other countries and unregulated aspects of online electoral campaigns. The crisis of confidence in traditional media increases the importance of offline and online networks of social interactions as a source of information. Data in Ukraine, Europe and USA show that loss of confidence in public institutions, rise of populism directly related to the decline in confidence in traditional media. The level of trust in vaccination in different regions of the world is also analyzed in the context of the functioning of media institutions and other public institutions. Modern media (both traditional and internet) tend to mix entertaining formats with political information. Converting policy to show, spreading fakes, noticeable dependence of media on certain political and economic groups and media’s partiality, weakening of expert filters undermines confidence in traditional and new media. Although the importance of social media for the democratization of the public sphere exists. Decreasing confidence in media in general converted to the сonfidence in concrete media figures (bloggers, experts etc.). The article also contains generalization of researches of media consumption in Ukraine in first part of 2019.

scholarly journals Peningkatan Literasi Keluarga dalam Konten Edukatif Pembuatan Brownies Kukus Melalui Youtube

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fathur Riza ◽  
Naelan Nikmah ◽  
Siti Nela Lailatul Hidayah ◽  
Vania Dhea Anggraeni ◽  
Ro’I Khatul Jannah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Wheat Flour ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Chemical Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Detailed Explanation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Source Of Information

YouTube is an online video site that provides a variety of information in the form of moving and reliable images. Many users access YouTube to find out how to do certain things, such as cooking demos, how to use applications in a computer or smartphone, recycle garbage, practical ways to do things that are initially complicated or ineffective, hone various skills and so on. This is a descriptive qualitative research employing non probability technique, a type of snowball sampling. The ingredients used for making brownies are eggs, baking soda, vanilla, sugar, wheat flour, cocoa powder, oil and water. In the process of steaming the brownies, heat transfer occurs in the form of conduction, convection and radiation and chemical changes also occur in brownies dough into well-cooked brownies cake. This research aims to find out to what extent the family knowledge in using YouTube as a source of information on science in the kitchen. The results obtained by YouTube can easily be accessed by the public. It is also often used by the public to look for recipes because there is a detailed explanation. After watching the video about brownies making, the insights gained about science in the kitchen increased.

scholarly journals Discourses of transnormativity in vloggers’ identity construction

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (256) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Jones
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Transgender Identity ◽  
The World ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This article investigates the construction of two transgender vlogger personas, providing insight into the prevalence of normative discourses which may be drawn on when constructing transgender identities. Many transgender people around the world rely on the internet as a source of information and guidance, with online video diaries (“vlogs”), in which young people record and chart their experiences of transition, playing a particularly important role. In this article, discourse from two popular transgender vloggers is critically analysed. It is found that the vloggers index identities which are broadly in line with what Lal Zimman terms the archetypal “true transsexual”, an ideological model of what it means to be “authentically” transgender. This corresponds with heteronormative, essentialist expectations of binary gender. The vloggers are shown to authenticate their own experiences by stating what is “typical” and positioning themselves as “experts”. Ultimately, it is argued that the version of transgender identity and experience that they put forward reproduces prevalent discourses of normative gender and sexuality.

Aspects of the Never-Ending Translation Wars in South Korea

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 390-410
Author(s):  
Andreas Schirmer
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Korean Population ◽  
The West ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Quality And Reliability

AbstractTranslation has always played a major role in Korea’s often painful process of modernization. But even in this context, the frequent “translation wars” are a striking phenomenon—especially when the zealous battles about mistranslations are fought not only within the limited confines of professional or aficionado circles, but also (as periodically occurs) captivate the general public. The fact that public discourse about the quality and reliability of translations is much more common in South Korea than anywhere in the West is very telling in cultural anthropological terms. This significance has, however, never been considered a matter deserving of academic attention in and of itself. Conspicuously, the public denunciation of translation mistakes, as practiced in Korea, often targets not only the immediate culprits but claims to expose a fundamental (culturally conditioned) mentality among the general Korean population. The implication is that Korean audiences lack self-assurance and tend to accept dubious passages meekly because they are conditioned to suspect themselves of being simply too stupid to understand. Korea’s ongoing translation wars are epitomized by encyclopedic books that present vast collections of detected mistakes and usually receive a great deal of media coverage. One regularly recurring motif of the multifaceted debates on mistranslations is the supposed disgrace and disadvantage sustained by Koreans when they are left with imperfect renderings of insights easily gleaned by those elsewhere in the world, who read, if not the originals, at least perfectly faithful translations.

scholarly journals Turkey’s response to COVID-19 in terms of mental health

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hakan Öğütlü
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
General Population ◽  
Health System ◽  
Mental State ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
Intrinsic Strength

Coronavirus disease (also known as COVID-19) continues to spread throughout the world. In Turkey, which has a strong health system, most hospitals have been turned into pandemic hospitals, elective procedures have been postponed, and doctors have been reassigned to treat COVID-19. Efforts to limit spread of COVID-19 have been effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19. Behind this success was not only the intrinsic strength of the health system but also the strict changes in everyday life wrought by the crisis. It is an inescapable fact that these new measures, such as the imposition of curfew and lockdown, have had a significant effect on the mental health of the general population. Anxiety caused by COVID-19 has spread to the mental state of everyone. Although coronavirus-related diseases will end soon, it is predicted that serious psychiatric disorders will be a lasting consequence of the pandemic. Despite the many negatives brought by COVID-19, it has led to a positive unity between the public and healthcare professionals, and in spite of significant risks to their own health, healthcare workers have risen to the challenge of COVID-19.

scholarly journals COVID-19 vaccines: the dilemma when thinking as a patient

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 609
Author(s):  
Suleiman I. Sharif ◽  
Rubian S. Sharif
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Conspiracy Theory ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Mass Killing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pharmaceutical Firms ◽  
Digital Certificates ◽  
The World ◽  
Gay And Lesbian Movement

What is the truth about the conspiracy theory of the COVID-19 microchip vaccine? The outbreak of the COVID-19 witnessed a vicious race of pharmaceutical firms to develop a vaccine that ends this disaster. Claims were forwarded that some firms funded by well-known foundations are in the process of developing such a vaccine so people wide world can be tracked. Such claims may have been based on Mr. Bill Gate’s announcement in an interview that through vaccination "we will have some digital certificates" which would be used to show who had recovered, been tested and ultimately who received a vaccine but he made no mention of microchips.  The conspiracy theory is spreading around the world and its supporters are on the increase among the public as well as many healthcare professionals. The spread of the virus has been attributed to the introduction of 5G technology and many religious leaders attributed the crisis to punishment from God to the spread of local wars and mass killing, torturing and killing of Muslims in China and Myanmar gay and lesbian movement and marriages.

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