Lack of standards in evaluating YouTube health videos

This paper is a systematised literature review of YouTube research in health with the aim of identify the different keyword search strategies, retrieval strategies and scoring systems to assess video content. A total of 176 peer-reviewed papers about video content analysis and video evaluation were...

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Author: Boté-Vericad, Juan-José
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repository:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/134781
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/134781
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Xarxes socials
Vídeo
Audiovisuals
Social networks
Video recording
Audio-visual materials
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description This paper is a systematised literature review of YouTube research in health with the aim of identify the different keyword search strategies, retrieval strategies and scoring systems to assess video content. A total of 176 peer-reviewed papers about video content analysis and video evaluation were extracted from the PubMed database. Concerning keyword search strategy, 16 papers (9.09 %) reported that search terms were obtained from tools like Google Trends or other sources. In just one paper, a librarian was included in the research team. Manual retrieval is a common technique, and just four studies (2.27 %) reported using a different methodology. Manual retrieval also produces YouTube algorithm dependencies and consequently obtains biased results. Most other methodologies to analyse video content are based on written medical guidelines instead of video because a standard methodology is lacking. For several reasons, reliability cannot be verified. In addition, because studies cannot be repeated, the results cannot be verified and compared. This paper reports some guidelines to improve research on YouTube, including guidelines to avoid YouTube dependencies and scoring system issues.
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spelling Lack of standards in evaluating YouTube health videos Boté-Vericad, Juan-José Xarxes socials Vídeo Audiovisuals Social networks Video recording Audio-visual materials This paper is a systematised literature review of YouTube research in health with the aim of identify the different keyword search strategies, retrieval strategies and scoring systems to assess video content. A total of 176 peer-reviewed papers about video content analysis and video evaluation were extracted from the PubMed database. Concerning keyword search strategy, 16 papers (9.09 %) reported that search terms were obtained from tools like Google Trends or other sources. In just one paper, a librarian was included in the research team. Manual retrieval is a common technique, and just four studies (2.27 %) reported using a different methodology. Manual retrieval also produces YouTube algorithm dependencies and consequently obtains biased results. Most other methodologies to analyse video content are based on written medical guidelines instead of video because a standard methodology is lacking. For several reasons, reliability cannot be verified. In addition, because studies cannot be repeated, the results cannot be verified and compared. This paper reports some guidelines to improve research on YouTube, including guidelines to avoid YouTube dependencies and scoring system issues. Editorial Ciencias Me?dicas https://hdl.handle.net/2445/134781
spellingShingle Lack of standards in evaluating YouTube health videos
Boté-Vericad, Juan-José
Xarxes socials
Vídeo
Audiovisuals
Social networks
Video recording
Audio-visual materials
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title Lack of standards in evaluating YouTube health videos
title_full Lack of standards in evaluating YouTube health videos
title_fullStr Lack of standards in evaluating YouTube health videos
title_full_unstemmed Lack of standards in evaluating YouTube health videos
title_short Lack of standards in evaluating YouTube health videos
title_sort Lack of standards in evaluating YouTube health videos
topic Xarxes socials
Vídeo
Audiovisuals
Social networks
Video recording
Audio-visual materials
topic_facet Xarxes socials
Vídeo
Audiovisuals
Social networks
Video recording
Audio-visual materials
url https://hdl.handle.net/2445/134781