Department of Critical Care Medicine, Chengdu First People's Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Front Public Health. 2024 Sep 4;12:1446003. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1446003. eCollection 2024.
The prevalence of heatstroke is rising due to global warming, making it a serious but preventable condition, highlighting the urgent need for effective dissemination of relevant health education to the general public. Advances in technology have made accessing health information more convenient and rapid. In recent years, short videos have become a primary medium for delivering health education, with TikTok gaining considerable popularity among the general public. However, the quality of heatstroke-related health education content on TikTok deserves closer scrutiny.
This study aimed to evaluate the quality and content of heatstroke-related videos available on TikTok.
The present study analyzed the top 100 heatstroke-related short videos on TikTok, focusing on their characteristics, quality, and the content they conveyed. The quality of these videos was assessed using the DISCERN instrument. In addition, the completeness of the videos was assessed by examining six key aspects: disease definition, clinical manifestations, risk factors, assessment, management, and outcomes.
The study included a total of 90 videos. The results showed that news organizations and healthcare professionals were the primary contributors to these videos, with those from news organizations receiving the most attention. In contrast, those from healthcare professionals received comparatively less engagement. Overall, the quality of the information was found to be moderately low, with the highest quality videos posted by non-profit organizations, followed by those posted by healthcare professionals. The majority of videos uploaded described the disease definition, clinical presentation, risk factors, assessment, management, and outcomes of heatstroke.
The quality of information provided in heatstroke-related short videos on TikTok is generally inadequate and requires significant improvement. In addition, such content should be subject to government review to ensure its accuracy and reliability.
由于全球变暖，中暑的患病率不断上升，这是一种严重但可预防的疾病，这突显了向公众有效传播相关健康教育的紧迫性。技术的进步使获取健康信息更加方便快捷。近年来，短视频已成为健康教育的主要传播媒介，TikTok 在公众中广受欢迎。然而，TikTok 上的中暑相关健康教育内容的质量值得进一步研究。
本研究旨在评估 TikTok 上中暑相关视频的质量和内容。
本研究分析了 TikTok 上排名前 100 的中暑相关短视频，重点关注它们的特点、质量和传达的内容。使用 DISCERN 工具评估这些视频的质量。此外，通过检查疾病定义、临床表现、危险因素、评估、管理和结果六个关键方面来评估视频的完整性。
研究共纳入 90 个视频。结果表明，新闻机构和医疗保健专业人员是这些视频的主要贡献者，其中新闻机构发布的视频受到最多关注，而医疗保健专业人员发布的视频相对较少。总体而言，信息质量被认为是中等偏低，其中来自非营利组织的视频质量最高，其次是来自医疗保健专业人员的视频。上传的大多数视频都描述了中暑的疾病定义、临床表现、危险因素、评估、管理和结果。
TikTok 上中暑相关短视频提供的信息质量普遍不足，需要显著改进。此外，此类内容应接受政府审查，以确保其准确性和可靠性。
