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Summary

  • The initial submission of this article was received on December 11th, 2023 and was peer-reviewed by 2 reviewers and the Academic Editor.
  • The Academic Editor made their initial decision on January 29th, 2024.
  • The first revision was submitted on February 13th, 2024 and was reviewed by 1 reviewer and the Academic Editor.
  • A further revision was submitted on March 14th, 2024 and was reviewed by the Academic Editor.
  • The article was Accepted by the Academic Editor on March 19th, 2024.

Version 0.3 (accepted)

· Mar 19, 2024 · Academic Editor

Accept

May be accepted for publication as authors addressed all the comments and revised the manuscript.

Version 0.2

· Mar 1, 2024 · Academic Editor

Minor Revisions

Thank you for revising the manuscript. However, it need further to include strengths of the review and improve the English language. Some sentences are very short and ambiguous. You need to address these issues before publication.

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Basic reporting

Dear authors,

Thank you for the responses and I am satisfied with the reply.

Now the article is good enough to publish in its current state.

Regards

Experimental design

No comment

Validity of the findings

No comment

Additional comments

Dear authors,

Please add some points related to the strengths of the review.

Regards.

Version 0.1 (original submission)

· Jan 29, 2024 · Academic Editor

Major Revisions

Highlight the role of YouTube, its merits, and demerits in clinical sciences.
The methodology section should be updated in detail along with the study design and statistical test and provide proper references.

Clearly describe the significance of the study for future research and applications.

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Basic reporting

1. Mention the prevalence rate and more details of IBP.
2. Mention in detail the role of you tube, its merits and demerits with references.
3. Mention in detail the need for this review with recent references.
4. Mention the clinical significance of this review to clinicians, researchers, and patients.

Experimental design

5. Include the study design and study setting.
6. Include the character of the videos. (The inclusion criteria are not clear)
7. Mention the MESH keywords for searching the videos.
8. Mention the data extraction procedure in detail.
9. Include the outcome variable measured for the review with its reliability and validity.
10. Mention the statistical analysis part.
11. Mention the statistical software used for the analysis.
12. Mention the kappa score of the reviewers who extracted the data.

Validity of the findings

13. Results are not presented in a clear manner.
14. Mention the acronym of abbreviations when it is used for the first time.
15. The conclusion should be more concise and clear based on the study reports.
16. Mention the future recommendations of the review.

Additional comments

Abstract:
1. Define inflammatory back pain in the background of the study.
2. Include the study design and study setting.
3. Include the character of the videoos.
4. Mention the statistical tests used for the analysis and their criteria.
5. The conclusion should be more concise and clear based on the study reports.
6. Avoid abbreviations in the conclusion.

Reviewer 2 ·

Basic reporting

The study covers the topic of IBP and as a Reviewer I understand the importance of this issue for both patients and medical field.
References are form recent studies which is good.
The study has a well defined and build structure.
Results are reasonable and comparable with other YT topic covering similar topics.

Experimental design

The topic of inflammatory back pain is indeed a part of the huge back pain topic, in my opinion the topic is well defined, group size is decent and the manuscript consists of a ethical approval which is rarely seen in such papers.

Methods are comparable with other aritcles focusing on the topic of Youtube and that also is an advantage.

Validity of the findings

The study shows that YT is not reliable in another medical topic. Statistical analysis is also decent, simple, but shows the key problem presented.

Additional comments

In summary the manuscript shows a study on another YT topic performed in a well known and used fashion by ohter Authors using DISCERN JAMA and GQS scoring systems. The search is done recently, ethical approval was aqcuired, statistiscs is sufficent to cover the topic. The discussion is well thought. Consusions show which videos should be chosen by the viewer to acquire the most reliable knowledge.

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