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YouTube as a source of useful information on diabetes foot care

2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 110; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.diabres.2015.08.003

1872-8227

Tasnima Abedin, Salim Ahmed, Mohammad Al Mamun, Syed Walid Ahmed, Sanjida Newaz, Nahid Rumana, Tanvir Chowdhury Turin,

Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation

Abstract Diabetes foot care related videos were identified in YouTube to assess their usefulness as a source of information. Two physician reviewers evaluated the videos and categorized those as very-useful (11.2%), moderately-useful (14.6%), somewhat-useful (24.7%) and not-useful (49.4%). YouTube videos on diabetes foot-care contained a variety of content ranging from very useful to not useful.