Does social media provide adequate health education for prevention of COVID-19? A case study of YouTube videos on social distancing and hand-washing.

ABSTRACT: Social media offers an opportune platform for educating the public about the recommended interventions during global health emergencies. This case study evaluated information in the popular social media platform YouTube about two key interventions (namely, 'social distancing' and 'hand washing') recommended during coronavirus disease-2019. Using the keywords 'social distancing' and 'hand washing', 77 and 78 videos, respectively, were selected from YouTube through pre-defined criteria. The understandability, actionability and quality of information in these videos were assessed. Cumulatively, the social distancing videos received >9 million views and the hand-washing videos received >37 million views. Thirteen social distancing videos (16.9%) and 46 hand-washing videos (58.9%) provided unde

SUBMITTER: Bora K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8394832 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature