Panacea Journal of Medical Sciences 2023;13(1):109–113
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Panacea Journal of Medical Sciences
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Original Research Article
Verity of male sexual disorder videos on social media platforms
Anant Giri
1,
*, Manish Gupta
1
, Hotilal Gupta
1
, Nripesh Sadasukhi
1
,
Trilok Chand Sadasukhi
1
, Ashish Sharma
1
, Sonia Goswami
2
, Ankit Modi
1
1
Dept. of Urology, Mahatma Gandhi Medical College and Hospital, Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences &
Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
2
Sawai Man Singh Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
ARTICLE INFO
Article history:
Received 08-11-2022
Accepted 10-01-2023
Available online 07-04-2023
Keywords:
EAU
Erectile dysfunction
Male sexual disorders
Premature ejaculation
Social media
ABSTRACT
Background: Male sexual disorders remain taboo, particularly in a developing country like India. The
affected census is under-depicted as of privacy issues, unawareness about the disease complex, a phobia
about being affected, and many more counting on it, with advancing digitalization and many friendly social
media platform, the affected individual logs onto the cybernet for perception, and here comes the role of
content reliability.
Materials and Methods: In April 2022, we seek the most accountable social media platforms - with
keywords of "Male Sexual Disorders", "Erectile Dysfunction", "Premature Ejaculation" and "Male sex
Problems" using BuzzSumo, an online analytic tool. The collected content was evaluated by two urology
residents on ground of European Association of Urology(EAU) Guidelines 2022, and for discrepancies, the
final decision was established by a senior specialist.
Results: Out of 191 included videos, 62.3% were videos uploaded by specialist and their mean duration
was 7.2 minutes. 67.53% of uploaded videos explained general information (n=129, 67.53%) and provide
information about diagnosis (28.7%) and treatment (78.01%), among which maximum videos favored
medical management (97.9%). 158 inclusion videos (82.72%) were following EAU guidelines. In excluded
videos, videos on alternative medicines shared maximum number (45.63%). Videos with animation and
sound were more appealing based on views and likes, although the contribution of animated videos was
rather less in number (25.65%).
Conclusion: The content with delusive information, small size samples, and individual opinion are having
more luring appeasement. so, this study firms its ground by stressing verity of content and need for scrutiny
by medical community.
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1. Introduction
Male Sexual Disorder or Dysfunction is a comprehensive
entity with unknowingly historic roots and encroaching on
various dimensions of a healthy individual. WHO defines
health as - "health is a state of complete physical, mental,
and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease
* Corresponding author.
E-mail address: dranantgiri@gmail.com (A. Giri).
or infirmity”.
1
The physical and mental domains of WHO
health definition is the ones imprinted by the male sexual
disorders.
Immense research work was done in the past for
exploring the density of this topic, but still not sufficient
to generalize it, the researchers are still digging into a
continuum, and people with different backgrounds are
having different perceptions of male sexual disorders. Male
Sexual Disorders remain taboo, particularly in a developing
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