Quality of Information in Gallstone Disease Videos on TikTok: Cross-sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

TikTok was an important channel for consumers to access and adopt health information. But the quality of health content in TikTok remains underinvestigated.

Objective

Our study aimed to identify upload sources, contents, and feature information of gallstone disease videos on TikTok and further evaluated the factors related to video quality.

Methods

We investigated the first 100 gallstone-related videos on TikTok and analyzed these videos' upload sources, content, and characteristics. The quality of videos was evaluated using quantitative scoring tools such as DISCERN instrument, the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) benchmark criteria, and Global Quality Scores (GQS). Moreover, the correlation between video quality and video characteristics, in

SUBMITTER: Sun F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9947761 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature