Quality Assessment of Health Information on Social Media During a Public Health Crisis: Infodemiology Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The quality of health information on social media is a major concern, especially during the early stages of public health crises. While the quality of the results of the popular search engines related to particular diseases has been analyzed in the literature, the quality of health-related information on social media, such as X (formerly Twitter), during the early stages of a public health crisis has not been addressed.

Objective

This study aims to evaluate the quality of health-related information on social media during the early stages of a public health crisis.

Methods

A cross-sectional analysis was conducted on health-related tweets in the early stages of the most recent public health crisis (the COVID-19 pandemic). The study analyzed the top 100 websit

SUBMITTER: Haghighi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12551971 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature