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YouTube as a source of quit smoking information for people living with mental illness

Overview of attention for article published in Tobacco Control, January 2016
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Title
YouTube as a source of quit smoking information for people living with mental illness
Published in
Tobacco Control, January 2016
DOI 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2015-052713
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Authors

Ratika Sharma, Maya Lucas, Pauline Ford, Carla Meurk, Coral E Gartner

Abstract

YouTube is the most popular video sharing website, and is increasingly used to broadcast health information including smoking cessation advice. This study examines the quality and quantity of YouTube quit smoking videos targeted at people living with mental illness (MI). We systematically searched YouTube using selected relevant search terms. The first 50 videos obtained for each search term were screened for relevance and further videos screened through snowball sampling. Forty unique, English language videos focussing on people with MI were included in the assessment and evaluated for general video characteristics, themes, format, targeted smoking cessation and harm reduction information. Most videos either discussed the problem of high smoking rates among people with MI (n=12) or smoking cessation programmes and policies at an institutional level (n=13). Only nine videos were aimed at providing quit smoking advice to this population. One video recommended higher doses of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for people with MI while six videos referred to possible changes in medication dosage on quitting smoking. Four videos suggested cutting down smoking for harm reduction. Very few YouTube videos specifically focus on the problem of high smoking rates among people with MI and even fewer provide targeted smoking cessation and harm reduction advice for this priority population. There is a need to develop comprehensive, evidence based, quit smoking video resources for smokers with a MI.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 2%
Unknown 51 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 15%
Student > Bachelor 8 15%
Researcher 6 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 8%
Professor 2 4%
Other 9 17%
Unknown 15 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 10 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 10%
Social Sciences 5 10%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 10%
Engineering 3 6%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 17 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 October 2016.
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#6,744,703
of 22,837,982 outputs
Outputs from Tobacco Control
#2,302
of 3,203 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#108,963
of 395,131 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Tobacco Control
#25
of 31 outputs
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