Table 2.
Baseline characteristics of videos included for analysis after applying exclusion criterion.
| Video characteristics | Videos in English (n = 72) |
P value* | Videos in Mandarin (n = 42) |
P value* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Useful (n = 47) | Misleading (n = 2) | Useful (n = 20) | Misleading (n = 7) | |||
| Mean number of views | 288545.30 | 1621.5 | 0.00001 | 91949.90 | 151868.70 | 0.30 |
| Mean number of views/day | 99083.53 | 438.33 | 0.0002 | 21739.39 | 73222.72 | 0.14 |
| Mean number of likes | 3889.27 | 9.50 | 0.08 | 640.40 | 1037 | 0.55 |
| Mean number of likes/day | 1118.37 | 2.58 | 0.07 | 207.57 | 473.57 | 0.35 |
| Mean number of days on YT | 6.42 | 3.50 | 0.02 | 8.25 | 3 | 0.0006 |
| Mean length of videos (mins) | 4.21 | 4.22 | 0.99 | 3.30 | 7.20 | 0.10 |
| Modified DISCERN score | 3.12 | 0 | NA¶ | 3.25 | 0 | NA¶ |
*p values calculated for difference in characteristics between useful and misleading videos for each group.
¶p value was not calculated as misleading videos were not scored using the DISCERN index.