Short-Video Apps as a Health Information Source for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Information Quality Assessment of TikTok Videos.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has become one of the most critical public health problems worldwide. Because many COPD patients are using video-based social media to search for health information, there is an urgent need to assess the information quality of COPD videos on social media. Recently, the short-video app TikTok has demonstrated huge potential in disseminating health information and there are currently many COPD videos available on TikTok; however, the information quality of these videos remains unknown.

Objective

The aim of this study was to investigate the information quality of COPD videos on TikTok.

Methods

In December 2020, we retrieved and screened 300 videos from TikTok and collected a sample of 199 COPD-related videos in Chin

SUBMITTER: Song S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8726035 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature