#Neurosurgery: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Neurosurgical Content on TikTok

McBriar, Joshua D.; Mishra, Akash; Shah, Harshal A.; Boockvar, John A.; Langer, David; D’Amico, Randy S.

doi:10.1016/j.wnsx.2022.100137

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“…14 The literature demonstrates that physicians across multiple medical disciplines have taken to the platform to educate the public on various topics encoded by their topic's respective hashtags. 3,7,8,10,15 Based on our screened studies and researched hashtag, we found a significant lack of orthopaedic surgeon content creators. PM&R physicians accounted for 50% of all physician videos (6 of 12 physician videos); however, we found only one orthopaedic surgeon content creator.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

#lowbackpain on TikTok: A New Frontier for Orthopaedic Medical Education

Hasan,

Ahlgren,

Lipphardt

et al. 2024

JAAOS Glob Res Rev

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Introduction: Low back pain has become a substantial health problem in all developed countries. Many healthcare professionals and content creators have begun sharing their treatment methods and opinions through social media, especially the video-based platform TikTok. TikTok has been downloaded more than 2.6 billion times with over a billion daily users. Its influence on public health makes it imperative that information be accurate and safe. This study aims to analyze TikTok's most popular content on lower back pain and how orthopaedic surgeons contribute on this growing platform. Objectives: To analyze TikTok's most popular content on lower back pain and how orthopaedic surgeons are and can contribute on this growing platform. Methods: A TikTok search conducted on April 22, 2023, using the terms ‘#lowerbackpain'and ‘#lowbackpainrelief,’ resulted in numerous videos, 100 of which met inclusion criteria. Videos were included if they were related to the content, had more than 1000 views, were in English, and were not duplicates. Video characteristics were recorded and evaluated for quality by two reviewers using DISCERN. A two-sample t-test was used to assess differences. Results: Overall, the top videos on lower back pain had an average of 2,061,396 views, with a mean DISCERN score of 34. The mean total DISCERN score was 36 and 34 for physicians and nonphysicians, respectively, while the video by the orthopaedic surgeon (n = 1) scored 31. The most recommended treatments included at-home exercises (n = 75) and visiting a chiropractor (n = 4). Conclusion: We find that the information presented by nonphysicians offered quick, at-home fixes to medical problems without offering any research or proven data to support their claims. We cannot overlook Tiktok's immense influence in the realm of orthopaedic health as it has become a sphere of information dissemination and education. Thus, we suggest that there is not necessarily a need for a greater number of surgeons and/or resident physicians to involve themselves on the platform, but rather the involvement of governing bodies and spine societies to put out position statements for our patients.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

#lowbackpain on TikTok: A New Frontier for Orthopaedic Medical Education

Hasan,

Ahlgren,

Lipphardt

et al. 2024

JAAOS Glob Res Rev

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“…A "fair" quality is higher than neurosurgery content that is found on other mainstream multimedia resources including YouTube 13 and TikTok. 14 Hence, the quality of ChatGPT content falls between these audiovisual media sources and neurosurgeon-created written content such as the AANS website. A notable difference between ChatGPT and the Each item is scored on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 reflects a definite "no" (of lower quality) and 5 reflects a definite "yes" (of higher quality).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…assessed ChatGPT and AANS website content quality using the DISCERN criteria, a reliable and valid method of assessing the quality of treatmentrelated written health information 12 that has been previously used for online neurosurgical content. 13,14 This tool consists of 15 questions that aim to assess various characteristics of the information source. Each question is scored from 1 to 5 points, with higher scores indicating a source of information that exhibits less bias and/or provides valuable information regarding medical treatment.…”

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Exploring the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Neurosurgery: Let us be Cautious With ChatGPT

Mishra¹,

Begley²,

Chen³

et al. 2023

Neurosurgery

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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: ChatGPT is a novel natural language processing artificial intelligence (AI) module where users enter any question or command and receive a single text response within seconds. As AI becomes more accessible, patients may begin to use it as a resource for medical information and advice. This is the first study to assess the neurosurgical information that is provided by ChatGPT. METHODS: ChatGPT was accessed in January 2023, and prompts were created requesting treatment information for 40 common neurosurgical conditions. Quantitative characteristics were collected, and four independent reviewers evaluated the responses using the DISCERN tool. Prompts were compared against the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) “For Patients” webpages. RESULTS: ChatGPT returned text organized in paragraph and bullet-point lists. ChatGPT responses were shorter (mean 270.1 ± 41.9 words; AANS webpage 1634.5 ± 891.3 words) but more difficult to read (mean Flesch-Kincaid score 32.4 ± 6.7; AANS webpage 37.1 ± 7.0). ChatGPT output was found to be of “fair” quality (mean DISCERN score 44.2 ± 4.1) and significantly inferior to the “good” overall quality of the AANS patient website (57.7 ± 4.4). ChatGPT was poor in providing references/resources and describing treatment risks. ChatGPT provided 177 references, of which 68.9% were inaccurate and 33.9% were completely falsified. CONCLUSION: ChatGPT is an adaptive resource for neurosurgical information but has shortcomings that limit the quality of its responses, including poor readability, lack of references, and failure to fully describe treatment options. Hence, patients and providers should remain wary of the provided content. As ChatGPT or other AI search algorithms continue to improve, they may become a reliable alternative for medical information.

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“…Interestingly, entertainment seems to be a trope even when it comes to topics that we would not normally think of as being entertaining. In their research of the #Neurosurgery hashtag, McBriar et al (2022), also found that entertaining content was the most popular type of content, even if the videos were about neurosurgery. 7 It is also important to note that the reported figures do not include data for Douyin -Bytedance's "TikTok for China", which the company reports separately, or the massive social media market of India, where TikTok is still banned.…”

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confidence: 99%

“We Should Be Talking About This More”

Kyparissiadis¹,

Diamantaki²

2023

JEICOM

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Recent research has revealed that popular social media platforms are emerging as crucial digital health sources for individuals across demographics, but more so for adolescents and young adults (Lupton, 2021; McCashin & Murphy, 2022; Montag et al., 2021). ΤikTok is the latest social networking tool said to be functioning as a source of informal mental health communication and is increasingly being utilized for giving and seeking advice, sharing information and personal stories about the symptoms, effects, challenges, and coping strategies related to stress and anxiety, among other mental health issues (McCashin & Murphy, 2022). Despite the rapid growth of TikTok-based research, investigations of mental health-relevant content on this platform are still very few. The current study aims to contribute to this body of research through a content analysis of the most popular TikTok videos labelled with pertinent hashtags, namely #anxiety, #stress, and #stressrelief. The aim is to map the practices through which TikTok content creators appropriate the platform’s affordances in order to create content and generate interactions around a focal object of common concern. The analysis focuses on diverse aspects of the platform’s use as a medium for creating stress- and anxiety-related content, including the content creator identity and presentation, video format, type and purpose, audience engagement levels, as well as reported sources, symptoms, consequences, and coping techniques of stress and anxiety. The examination of TikTok user practices offers insights into the evolving patterns of consumption and production of digital content, and cultural production in a social media context.

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#Neurosurgery: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Neurosurgical Content on TikTok

Cited by 16 publications

References 25 publications

#lowbackpain on TikTok: A New Frontier for Orthopaedic Medical Education

#lowbackpain on TikTok: A New Frontier for Orthopaedic Medical Education

Exploring the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Neurosurgery: Let us be Cautious With ChatGPT

“We Should Be Talking About This More”

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