Hashtag Healthcare: An Assessment of Current Educational Quality and Patient Perceptions of Scoliosis on TikTok

Autor: Reid Chambers, DO, Anthony Yassall, DO, Adam Mansour, MD, Julie Balch Samora, MD, PhD, MPH, Allen Kadado, MD, Alexis Day, MPH, CAPM, Noor Alkahlout, MS, RD, LD, Kirsten Tulchin-Francis, PhD
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Journal of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America, Vol 9, Iss , Pp 100115- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2768-2765
DOI: 10.1016/j.jposna.2024.100115
Popis: Background: Significant racial disparities exist in healthcare, including in the diagnosis and treatment of scoliosis. The social media platform TikTok is estimated to reach over 1.7 billion monthly users in 2023. It is one of the most popular social media platforms for teenagers and young adults. This study aimed to explore TikTok content metrics related to scoliosis and determine demographic differences across videos. Methods: This cross-sectional study included TikTok posts searched using Exolyt analytics software for the top hashtags related to scoliosis from Sept 2020–Aug 2022. Data were collected for race and role of the creator and underlying themes. A staged approach was used to analyze content through familiarization, identifying thematic framework, indexing, summarizing, and interpreting data. The educational quality of videos was determined using the DISCERN scale by two independent reviewers (very poor:
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