Table 2.

Quality of postpartum pain management videos on YouTube by video source.^a,b

Video source	Overall content score			DISCERN score
	Mean (SD)	P value	Mean (SD)		P value
Total (N=73)	3.6 (2.0)	N/Ac	3.2 (8.1)		N/A
Medical (n=36)	3.3 (2.0)	.02	39.4 (8.7)		.45
Personal vlog (n=32)	4.0 (2.1)	N/A	38.9 (7.5)		N/A
Advertisement (n=3)	2.0 (0)	N/A	35.7 (8.6)		N/A
Media (n=2)	2.5 (0.7)	N/A	46 (5.6)		N/A

^aThe “overall content score” assesses video comprehensiveness related to postcesarean pain and is scored out of a maximum of 9 points.

^bThe DISCERN instrument evaluates the reliability of consumer health information. Higher scores indicate greater reliability. Scores are reported out of a maximum of 75. The following categories were used for score interpretation: excellent (63-75 points), good (51-62), fair (39-50), poor (28-38), and very poor (≤27).

^cN/A: not applicable.