Wang Yue, Yang Shuo, Shu Xingyi, Chen Yuqing, Wei Ruili
College of Basic Medical Sciences, Naval Medical University, Shanghai, China.
Department of Ophthalmology, Changzheng Hospital Affiliated to Naval Medicine University, Shanghai, China.
Digit Health. 2024 Dec 12;10:20552076241304594. doi: 10.1177/20552076241304594. eCollection 2024 Jan-Dec.
Thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) is a prevalent orbital disease significantly affecting patients' daily lives. Nowadays, TikTok acts as a novel tool for healthcare but involved videos need to be further assessed. Many individuals search for disease information on TikTok before professional consultation. This study aimed to assess the quality of TAO-related TikTok videos and correlations between video variables and quality.
The top 150 TikTok videos were collected using the keyword TAO. Duplicate, too-short, irrelevant videos and similar videos from the same source were excluded. Two raters evaluated the included videos' overall quality, reliability, understandability, and actionability on different sources and content focuses.
Ninety videos had received nearly 15,000 likes and 2000 shares. Ophthalmologists and treatment focus were two primary parts among categorized groups, whose quality scores were much higher than others. The average Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool for Audiovisual Materials scores, Global Quality Scores, and DISCERN scores indicated that these videos were easy to understand (87.6%), actionable (74.5%), and fair in quality (44.97). The number of added hashtags was an essential variable positively correlated with video understandability. Additionally, popularity showed negative correlations with the overall quality, while video length positively correlated with its reliability and negatively correlated with the uploaded days.
Certified healthcare professionals uploaded most TAO videos, resulting in acceptable quality with minimal misinformation. To serve as a qualified source of patient educational materials, TikTok is supposed to promote longer disease-related videos and enhance reliability and understandability simultaneously.
甲状腺相关性眼病（TAO）是一种常见的眼眶疾病，严重影响患者的日常生活。如今，TikTok成为了一种新型医疗保健工具，但其中涉及的视频仍需进一步评估。许多人在进行专业咨询之前会在TikTok上搜索疾病信息。本研究旨在评估与TAO相关的TikTok视频的质量以及视频变量与质量之间的相关性。
使用关键词TAO收集TikTok上排名前150的视频。排除重复、过短、不相关的视频以及来自同一来源的相似视频。两名评估者对纳入的视频在不同来源和内容重点方面的整体质量、可靠性、可理解性和可操作性进行评估。
90个视频获得了近15000个赞和2000次分享。眼科医生和治疗重点是分类组中的两个主要部分，其质量得分远高于其他部分。视听材料患者教育材料评估工具的平均得分、全球质量得分和辨别力得分表明，这些视频易于理解（87.6%）、可操作（74.5%），质量一般（44.97）。添加的主题标签数量是与视频可理解性呈正相关的一个重要变量。此外，受欢迎程度与整体质量呈负相关，而视频长度与其可靠性呈正相关，与上传天数呈负相关。
大多数TAO视频由认证的医疗保健专业人员上传，导致质量可接受且错误信息最少。为了成为合格的患者教育材料来源，TikTok应该推广更长的疾病相关视频，同时提高可靠性和可理解性。
