Videos in Short-Video Sharing Platforms as Sources of Information on Colorectal Polyps: Cross-Sectional Content Analysis Study

作者：Jia‐Lun Guan, Suhong Xia, Kai Zhao, Lina Feng, Yingying Han, Ji‐Yan Li, Jiazhi Liao, Peiyuan Li · 发表于：Journal of Medical Internet Research · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.2196/51655 · 被引用次数：54 · 研究领域：Health Literacy and Information Accessibility、Social Media in Health Education、Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare

BACKGROUND: Short videos have demonstrated huge potential in disseminating health information in recent years. However, to our knowledge, no study has examined information about colorectal polyps on short-video sharing platforms. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyze the content and quality of colorectal polyps-related videos on short-video sharing platforms. METHODS: The terms "" (intestinal polyps) or "" (colonic polyps) or "" (rectal polyps) or "" (colorectal polyps) or "" (polyps of large intestine) were used to search in TikTok (ByteDance), WeChat (Tencent Holdings Limited), and Xiaohongshu (Xingyin Information Technology Limited) between May 26 and June 8, 2024, and then the top 100 videos for each search term on different platforms were included and recorded. The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) score, the Global Quality Scale (GQS), the modified DISCERN, and the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT) were used to evaluate the content and quality of selected videos by 2 independent researchers. SPSS (version 22.0; IBM Corp) and GraphPad Prism (version 9.0; Dotmatics) were used for analyzing the data. Descriptive statistics were generated, and the differences between groups were compared. Spearman correlation analysis was used to evaluate the relationship between quantitative variables. RESULTS: A total of 816 eligible videos were included for further analysis, which mainly conveyed disease-related knowledge (n=635, 77.8%). Most videos were u...