Table 1.

Actors in YouTube videos according to the Brain Death Medical Information Quality (BD-MIQ) assessment.

Actor	IUa (n=26), n	NUb (n=19), n	MUc (n=20), n	TUd (n=66), n	ISe (n=55), n	NSf (n=54), n	MSg (n=58), n	TSh (n=167), n
Doctor	2	0	0	2	8	8	8	24
Medical student	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	2
Nurse	2	0	0	2	6	4	3	13
Other medical staff	2	1	0	3	3	1	1	5
Donor	0	0	0	0	5	0	4	9
Recipient	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	3
Donor relative	0	0	0	0	5	2	2	9
Recipient relative	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2
Other patient	0	1	0	1	1	8	6	15
Other patient relative	0	0	1	1	1	7	8	16
Association	2	2	0	4	0	1	0	1
Citizen	4	2	12	18	7	3	9	19
Government	1	0	0	1	2	4	4	10
Media	3	9i	1i	13	3i	11i	2i	16
Religion	6	0	2	8	5	0	2	7
Education	2	0	1	3	3	2	2	7
Unknown	2	4	4	10	2	2	5	9

^aIU: information uploaders.

^bNU: no information uploaders.

^cMU: misinformation uploaders.

^dTU: total uploaders.

^eIS: information speakers.

^fNS: no information speakers.

^gMS: misinformation speakers.

^hTS: total speakers.

ⁱStatistically significant (P<.05) difference.