Evaluation of Videos with COVID-19 and CPR Content on YouTube

Abstract

Objective:The aim of this study is to evaluate the compliance of the scientific, quality, and educational content of YouTube videos with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with the American Health Association 2020 current resuscitation guideline.Method:The first 70 most watched videos were recorded for evaluation by typing Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) and CPR as keywords in the search engine of the YouTube homepage. The videos were evaluated according to the criteria of inclusion in the study, and the source of the videos, by whom they were uploaded, the length of the video, the number of days uploaded, the number of views and likes, the global quality score (GQS), the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) score and the m-DISCERN scoring systems were recorded to detect the characteristics of the videos. These data were evaluated statistically.Results:21% of the evaluated videos were uploaded by doctors and 79% by healthcare providers. The average video length was 3.945 seconds, the average number of views was 9104.37, and the average number of like was 61.70. The mean GQS was 4.24, mean JAMA score was 3.06, and mean m-DISCERN score was 3.76. There was no statistically significant difference between both the loaders.Conclusion:YouTube videos were found to be accurate and appropriate for scientific content. The reliability of YouTube, which is a visual video content, is significantly meaningful, especially about how healthcare professionals will perform CPR during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords

• covid-19
• cpr
• gqs
• jama
• m-discern
• youtube