A Quality Analysis of Donor Nephrectomy-Related Information on YouTube; Education or Misinformation?

INTRODUCTION: There currently remains an urgent need to increase living kidney donation to help mitigate the high demand for waitlisted kidney failure patients. Potential kidney donors can readily access social media, particularly YouTube, to gain basic knowledge about live donor nephrectomy surgical procedures. YouTube is an open-source platform where anyone can upload videos about any topic without peer review or quality control and is frequently used for disseminating health education. This study aims to assess the quality and accuracy of information regarding live donor nephrectomy on YouTube. METHODS: A YouTube search was performed using the keywords "donor nephrectomy" and "kidney transplant." A total of 57 videos were assessed for eligibility criteria. Two validated tools for evaluating health information, the DISCERN and The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool for Audiovisual Materials tools, were used to assess YouTube video information quality, understandability, and actionability. RESULTS: A total of 53 of 57 screened videos were included in this study, with 4 videos being excluded for not being primarily in the English language. The mean (SD) DISCERN score was 23.3 (±8.3), and the mean (SD) The Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool for Audiovisual Materials Understandability and Actionability scores of 41.7% (±17.5) and 8.2% (±22.9%), respectively. Although videos were generally relevant in content to donor nephrectomy, videos lacked quality information and actionable items. CONCLUSIONS: Information on living donor nephrectomies is prevalent on YouTube. Our assessment using quality measures of selected videos illustrates substantial misinformation on living donor nephrectomies. YouTube has the potential to be a source of reliable and accurate information on living donor nephrectomies and donations.

Impact of educational instruction on medical student performance in simulation patient.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effects, and timing of, a video educational intervention on medical student performance in manikin-based simulation patient encounters. Methods: This prospective mixed-methods study was conducted as part of the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences undergraduate medical curriculum. One hundred sixty-six students second-year students participated in two simulations on a single day in September 2021. A 7-minute video intervention outlining the clinical diagnostic approach to pulmonary complaints was implemented. Students were randomized into 32 groups which were divided into two cohorts. One received the video prior to simulation-1 (n=83) and the other between simulation-1 and simulation-2 (n=83). Each simulation was recorded and assessed using a 44-point standardized checklist. Comparative analysis to determine differences in performance scores was performed using independent t-tests and paired t-tests. Results: Independent t-tests revealed the video-prior cohort performed better in simulation-1 (t(30)= 2.27, p= .03), however in simulation-2 no significant difference was observed between the cohorts. Paired t-test analysis revealed the video-between cohort had significant improvement from simulation-1 to simulation-2 (t(15)= 3.06, p = .01); no significant difference was found for the video-prior cohort. Less prompting was seen in simulation-2 among both the video-prior (t(15)= -2.83, p= .01) and video-between cohorts (t(15)= -2.18, p= .04). Conclusions: Simulation training, and targeted educational interventions, facilitate medical students to become clinically competent practitioners. Our findings indicate that guided video instruction advances students' clinical performance greater than learning through simulation alone. To confirm these findings, similar investigations in other clinical training exercises should be considered.