Haidar Layla A, Kortlever Joost T P, Ring David
Department of Surgery and Perioperative Care, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Arch Bone Jt Surg. 2020 Jan;8(1):33-37. doi: 10.22038/abjs.2019.34844.1916.
The general population's understanding of musculoskeletal health is likely influenced by media reports of the ailments of prominent athletes. We assessed factors independently associated with debatable or potentially misleading medical statements in mainstream sports media coverage of the ailments of professional and college athletes.
We identified and assessed 200 Internet media reports of musculoskeletal ailments of prominent athletes between February 19th and March 26th, 2018. We recorded medical statements about mechanism, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis. We then classified those statements as accurate, debatable, or possibly misleading. We created a multivariable logistic regression model to identify factors independently associated with debatable or possibly misleading statements.
Forty-five percent of statements were debatable or possibly misleading. Statements about diagnosis (Odds Ratio [OR]=0.17; ), treatment (OR=0.33; ), or prognosis (OR=0.27; ) and statements about shoulder and elbow ailments were more likely to be inaccurate compared to statements about mechanism and statements about knee ailments (OR=3.3; ) respectively.
Coverage of sports ailments in the mainstream media are a common source of misinformation. Ailments of prominent athletes may represent a useful opportunity to teach people about musculoskeletal health.
普通大众对肌肉骨骼健康的理解可能受到媒体对知名运动员疾病报道的影响。我们评估了主流体育媒体对职业和大学运动员疾病报道中与有争议或潜在误导性医学声明独立相关的因素。
我们识别并评估了2018年2月19日至3月26日期间关于知名运动员肌肉骨骼疾病的200篇网络媒体报道。我们记录了有关发病机制、诊断、治疗和预后的医学声明。然后我们将这些声明分类为准确、有争议或可能有误导性。我们创建了一个多变量逻辑回归模型来识别与有争议或可能有误导性声明独立相关的因素。
45%的声明有争议或可能有误导性。与关于发病机制的声明相比，关于诊断（比值比[OR]=0.17；）、治疗（OR=0.33；）或预后（OR=0.27；）的声明以及关于肩部和肘部疾病的声明更有可能不准确，与关于膝盖疾病的声明相比（OR=3.3；）也是如此。
主流媒体对体育疾病的报道是错误信息的常见来源。知名运动员的疾病可能是一个向人们传授肌肉骨骼健康知识的有用契机。
