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. 2015 Oct;110(1):e1-e4.
doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2015.08.003. Epub 2015 Aug 13.

YouTube as a source of useful information on diabetes foot care

Tasnima Abedin  1 , Salim Ahmed  1 , Mohammad Al Mamun  2 , Syed Walid Ahmed  1 , Sanjida Newaz  1 , Nahid Rumana  3 , Tanvir C Turin  4
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YouTube as a source of useful information on diabetes foot care

Tasnima Abedin et al. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2015 Oct.

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.

Keywords: Diabetes; Foot-care; Video; YouTube.

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