Evaluation of YouTube videos for patients’ education on periradicular surgery

Ahmed Jamleh; Mohannad Nassar; Hamad Alissa; Abdulmohsen Alfadley

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0261309

Peer Review History

Original SubmissionSeptember 29, 2021
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Revision 1
18 Nov 2021 Author Response Tanay Chaubal Academic Editor PLOS ONE Dear Dr. Tanay; It is an immense pleasure to submit our revised manuscript entitled: “Evaluation of YouTube videos for patients' education on periradicular surgery”. The authors ensured that the manuscript meets PLOS ONE's style requirements and have made changes to the manuscript according to the suggestions from the editor and the reviewers; the changes follow and are made in the revised manuscript using “Track Changes” mode. The funding information was removed from the “Acknowledgment” section which has to appear in the “Financial Disclosure”. Reference list was updated and formatted as requested. We are grateful for the attention and effort spent in reviewing our work, and valuable comments made by the respectful editor and reviewers. We sincerely hope that the revised manuscript is now suitable for publication in the PLOS ONE Journal. Sincerely yours, Reply to reviewer How has the appearance video in concern taken into account on social media? What do u mean by the videos from country of origin? Is there any countries upload restricted in your country? Can u please let us know the rationale of your study? Periapical surgery is increasingly becoming a common treatment option in the field of endodontics, and more clinicians including postgraduate students are being trained on this treatment modality. Due to the expected higher demand, the need for good quality educational materials on periapical surgery cannot be stressed enough. With the growing number of patients using social media, it appears that there is a need to evaluate the usefulness of periapical surgery-related videos posted on social media as a source of patient education. One of the most commonly used platforms for this purpose is YouTube due to the several advantages it offers over other platforms, and it is slowly becoming one of the primary sources for patients seeking specific health-related information. We conducted this study to analyze YouTube as a source of patient educational material on periapical surgery. The findings of our study highlight an immediate need for higher quality educational videos on periapical surgery as the existing videos content and quality vary significantly and none of the evaluated videos covered all the essential components related to this type of surgery. This responsibility should be shared among dental organizations, academic and professional clinicians. The country of origin (country of upload) indicates which countries are talking about this issue. In this study, half of the videos were from the United States. The search was conducted using an incognito window with a cache clean and unlogged browser to prevent robot learning and under default settings without any filters for sorting by relevance. However, some YouTube videos may not be available in the search as the video owners have chosen to make their content available only to certain countries/regions. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261309.r002
1 Dec 2021 Decision Letter - Tanay Chaubal, Editor Evaluation of YouTube videos for patients' education on periradicular surgery PONE-D-21-31439R1 Dear Dr. Ahmed Jamleh, We’re pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been judged scientifically suitable for publication and will be formally accepted for publication once it meets all outstanding technical requirements. Within one week, you’ll receive an e-mail detailing the required amendments. When these have been addressed, you’ll receive a formal acceptance letter and your manuscript will be scheduled for publication. An invoice for payment will follow shortly after the formal acceptance. To ensure an efficient process, please log into Editorial Manager at http://www.editorialmanager.com/pone/, click the 'Update My Information' link at the top of the page, and double check that your user information is up-to-date. If you have any billing related questions, please contact our Author Billing department directly at authorbilling@plos.org. If your institution or institutions have a press office, please notify them about your upcoming paper to help maximize its impact. If they’ll be preparing press materials, please inform our press team as soon as possible -- no later than 48 hours after receiving the formal acceptance. Your manuscript will remain under strict press embargo until 2 pm Eastern Time on the date of publication. For more information, please contact onepress@plos.org. Kind regards, Tanay Chaubal Academic Editor PLOS ONE Additional Editor Comments (optional): Dear Dr Ahmed Jamleh, I am pleased to accept your manuscript for publication. Thank you. Reviewers' comments: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261309.r003
Formally Accepted
3 Dec 2021 Acceptance Letter - Tanay Chaubal, Editor PONE-D-21-31439R1 Evaluation of YouTube videos for patients' education on periradicular surgery Dear Dr. Jamleh: I'm pleased to inform you that your manuscript has been deemed suitable for publication in PLOS ONE. Congratulations! Your manuscript is now with our production department. If your institution or institutions have a press office, please let them know about your upcoming paper now to help maximize its impact. If they'll be preparing press materials, please inform our press team within the next 48 hours. Your manuscript will remain under strict press embargo until 2 pm Eastern Time on the date of publication. For more information please contact onepress@plos.org. If we can help with anything else, please email us at plosone@plos.org. Thank you for submitting your work to PLOS ONE and supporting open access. Kind regards, PLOS ONE Editorial Office Staff on behalf of Dr. Tanay Chaubal Academic Editor PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261309.r004

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