YouTube, Health Information, and Health Literacy.

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

1. YouTube as a source of patient information on erythema nodosum: an analysis of quality and reliability.Clinical rheumatology · 2026
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2. Assessing the Quality of YouTube Videos About Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome.Cureus · 2026
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3. An infodemiological analysis of arabic online educational content on low back pain: Insights into quality and reliability.Journal of public health research · 2026
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4. Patient vs. physician narratives on refractive surgery in Turkish YouTube videos: a comparative reflexive thematic analysis.Scientific reports · 2026
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5. YouTube as a digital health platform: A cross-sectional thematic and sentiment analysis of the 100 most-viewed knee osteoarthritis videos.Medicine · 2026
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6. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quality and reliability of smoking cessation videos on YouTube: a comparative study across three pandemic periods.Frontiers in public health · 2025
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7. Evaluation of the Quality of Educational Content of YouTube Videos on Silver Diamine Fluoride.International journal of clinical pediatric dentistry · 2024
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8. Spanish language version of the "Medical Quality Video Evaluation Tool" (MQ-VET): Cross-cultural AI-supported adaptation and validation study.Science progress
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Authors and funding

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Funding

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Abstract

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