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Objectives: During the coronavirus disease-19 pandemic, due to restricted health-care access, patients may not get hands-on training for self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) from physicians YouTube is a popular video-sharing web platform that can be used as a source of information for SMBG This study aimed to assess the usefulness of YouTube videos on SMBG Material and Methods: We searched the keywords blood glucose self-monitoring, home blood glucose monitoring, blood glucose test, and blood sugar test on YouTube The first 40 videos of each search were listed After the two-stage screening, 49 videos were included for final data analysis General characteristics and SMBG-specific characteristics (namely, strip handling, lancing device handling, measurement, and post- measurement action) were observed with pre-defined criteria having yes and no closed option Data were tested statistically by the binomial test
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