Are Most Videos Published on Youtube^™ About Weight Loss and Low-Calorie Diet Made by Healthcare Professionals?

Haniel Fernandes
Estácio de Sá College, Nutrition Departament, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil.

Correspondence to: Haniel Fernandes, Estácio de Sá College, Nutrition Departament, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil.
Received date: February 18, 2024; Accepted date: March 20, 2024; Published date: March 27, 2024
Citation: Fernandes H. Are Most Videos Published on Youtube^™ About Weight Loss and Low-Calorie Diet Made by Healthcare Professionals?. J Clin Biomed Invest. 2024;4(1):pp. 1-3. doi: 10.52916/jcbi244029
Copyright: ©2024 Fernandes H. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Keywords:

Weight loss, Low-calorie, Healthcare, COVID-19.

Abstract

Background and Aims: Nowadays, people have become embracing the use of web-based technologies for communication and educational purposes. There are studies that prove the effectiveness that computer-, internet- or multimedia-based educational methods are more effective than traditional, paper-based sources. Therefore, evaluating if YouTube™ about weight loss or low-calorie diet video was shared by a healthcare professional could facilitate the identification of authentic information sources and real knowledge transfer. Thus, the study objective was to mathematically and objectively evaluate the number of videos shared on YouTube™ about weight loss and low-calorie diet produced by healthcare or non-health professionals.
Methos: Was conducted systematic search for videos that contain relevant information about weight loss and low-calorie diet on the YouTube™ video platform. The author used two terms for the search, it was "weight loss" and "low calorie diet". Thus, with this approach, the study purpose was to find videos with the weight loss and low-calorie diet themes about and to assess if were made by professionals or non-professional health care.
Results: 130 videos were then selected for the research. Of the total, 12 were not in English and 4 were newspaper, magazine, or news videos. Thus, 114 videos were elective for subsequent analyses, where 76 explained about weight loss self-reports, 12 it talked about weight loss training routines, 22 explained about weight loss low-calorie models’ diet and 4 commented on medication weight loss. Still regarding the 114 total videos, 16 were produced by healthcare professionals (16%) and 98 by non-healthcare professionals.
Conclusion: In summary, 16% weight loss or low-calorie diet videos were shared by healthcare professionals e 75% weight loss or low-calorie diet total videos views were shared by non-healthcare professionals.

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