Keerthi Reddy, Mary Kearns, Santiago Alvarez-Arango, Ismael Carrillo-Martin, Nathaly Cuervo-Pardo, Lyda Cuervo-Pardo, Ves Dimov, David M Lang, Sonia Lopez-Alvarez, Brian Schroer, Kaushik Mohan, Mark Dula, Simin Zheng, Claudia Kozinetz, Alexei Gonzalez-Estrada
BACKGROUND: Food allergy affects an estimated 8% of children and 3% of adults in the United States. Food-allergic individuals increasingly use the web for medical information. We sought to determine the educational quality of food allergy YouTube videos. METHODS: We performed a YouTube search using keywords "food allergy" and "food allergies". The 300 most viewed videos were included and analyzed for characteristics, source, and content. Source was further classified as healthcare provider, alternative medicine provider, patient, company, media, and professional society...
June 2018: Pediatric Allergy and Immunology