Reliability of Youtube Videos for Patient Education on Food Allergies

Abstract

With the increasing prevalence of food allergies among children during the last two decades, management in the school setting has received more attention. Children with food allergies are at risk for reactions in other group settings, including summer camps. There is a lack of data exploring the knowledge about food allergies among summer camp personnel. METHODS: Survey data was collected prior to a one-hour food allergy educational session for personnel (n543) at Flying Horse Farms, an overnight camp for children with chronic medical diseases. Follow-up data was collected one month later via an online survey (n525,58% response). Pre/post results were compared using a two-tailed Z-test. RESULTS: In 2014, 446 campers attended camp and 15% (n568) reported food allergy. Staff personnel were primarily 18-24 years old (n529,70%), female (n533,77%), and without a personal or family history of food allergy (n531,72%). At baseline 38/43 (88%) of respondents correctly identified self-injectable epinephrine as first-line management of anaphylaxis; which increased to 100% at followup(p50.09). Approximately 25% (n511) reported no previous training on proper use of self-injectable epinephrine. After the session, comfort level increased both caring for children with food allergy (56% to 83% (p50.02)) and treating a food allergy emergency (38% to 71% (p50.01)). Perceived need for more information about food allergies decreased from 84% to 13% (p<0.001) of respondents. CONCLUSIONS: At an overnight summer camp for medically complex children, there was an increase in staff comfort and knowledge about food allergies after an educational session. Inclusion of educational resources providing basic food allergy management skills targeted at summer camps should be considered a mandatory part of all training.

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“…Our strategy in selecting videos included in our sample group was based on internet search engine research demonstrating that between 62% and 90% of search engine users do not click on results beyond the first and third page of results, respectively (11). Our methods were previously used in multiple studies that assessed YouTube as a source of patient education (13)(14)(15)(16).…”

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“…Scholars stated that videos are in most powerful social media tools since they provide visualization of experiences and dialogues and also allow user interaction by using comments , therefore it could be concluded that YouTube videos are used in both informal and formal learning process. Educational usage of YouTube from different disciplines such as medicine (Kumar, 2017;Khalil, Megaly, Ibrahim, & Dimov, 2016;Clifton & Mann, 2011;Duncan, Yarwood-Ross, & Haigh, 2013;Rapp et al, 2016;, foreign language education (Lo, 2012;Tolentino, 2016), art education (DeWitt et al, 2013;Lee, 2013), higher education (Stefania Manca & Ranieri, 2016a;Stefania Manca & Ranieri, 2016;Everson, Gundlach, & Miller, 2013), K12 education (Filkins, 2015;Lu, Hao, & Jing, 2016), business education (Orús et al, 2016;Lu et al, 2016) and science education (Torres-Ramírez, García-Domingo, Aguilera, & Casa, 2014;Akgun et al, 2014) are examples of fact that YouTube is not only most visited social media platform but also it is highly newsworthy research subject.…”