Daith piercing, a social media hype on YouTube for the treatment of migraine? A systematic video analysis of quality and reliability
Abstract
Background: Nowadays, social media video-sharing website YouTube is globally accessible and used for sharing news and information. It also serves as a tool for migraine sufferers seeking guidance about Daith piercing as a potential migraine treatment; however, shared and disseminated video content is rarely regulated and does not follow evidence-based medicine. Objective: To investigate the content, quality, and reliability of YouTube videos on Daith piercing for the treatment of migraine. Methods: YouTube videos were systematically searched from the video portal inception until 17th January 2024. "Daith piercing" AND "migraine" were the applied search terms. All video blogs reporting on Daith piercing for the treatment of migraine were included. The primary outcome of interest was assessing the Global Quality Scale and DISCERN implementing the five-point Likert scale ("very poor" to "excellent") to evaluate each video blog's quality, flow, and reliability. Secondary outcomes included the relapse time of migraine after Daith piercing, and further outcomes related to Daith piercing. This systematic video analysis was preregistered in PROSPERO (https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/ CRD42024510089). Results: Out of 496 initially screened video recordings, 246 videos were included in the final analysis (N=69 categorized as Personal Experience; N=176 as Others, defined as videos from bloogers, piercers or other persons not affected by migraine; and N=1 as Healthcare…
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