Health information sharing on social media: quality assessment of short videos about chronic kidney disease.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Chronic kidney disease (CKD), which affects about 10% of global population, has become a global public health crisis in recent decades. It is well recognized that health information dissemination could change health behaviors, thereby greatly improving the early diagnosis and prevention of diseases. Due to fast dissemination, wide audience, intuitive and vivid, popularization through short videos has rapidly developed into the new main battlefield of health information. The objective of this study was to describe the properties of the CKD-related health information on short video apps.

Methods

Searching on short video apps with high-frequency words in kidney disease as keywords, the basic information of the uploaders was retrieved and extracted short video. Five

SUBMITTER: Yao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9703412 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature