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

• Published in: Journal of medical Internet research Vol. 25; no. 2; p. e39162
• Main Authors: Sun, Fei, Zheng, Shusen, Wu, Jian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Canada Journal of Medical Internet Research 08.02.2023; Gunther Eysenbach MD MPH, Associate Professor; JMIR Publications
• Subjects: Analysis; Benchmarking; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Clinical information; Consumers; Correlation analysis; COVID-19; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data collection; Diabetes; Discrimination; Emotions; Gallbladder; Gallstones; Gallstones - diagnosis; Health information; Health status; Humans; Information Dissemination; Laboratory animals; Lifestyles; Medical care; Medical societies; News; News agencies; Original Paper; Patient education; Physicians; Quality management; Reliability; Reproducibility of Results; Social Media; Surgery; Type 2 diabetes; United States > US; information quality; gallbladder; credible; reliability; accuracy; Journal of American Medical Association; health information; hepatobiliary; reliable; dissemination; gallstone; credibility; social media; medical information; misinformation; DISCERN; disease knowledge; infodemiology; GQS; JAMA; video quality; TikTok; online health information; digital health; content analysis; patient education; Global Quality Score

TikTok was an important channel for consumers to access and adopt health information. But the quality of health content in TikTok remains underinvestigated. Our study aimed to identify upload sources, contents, and feature information of gallstone disease videos on TikTok and further evaluated the f...