Table 2.
Characteristics of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease–related TikTok videos, by source
| Source of videos | Days on TikTok, median (IQR) | Video duration (seconds), median (IQR) | Number of likes, median (IQR) | Number of comments, median (IQR) | Number of shares, median (IQR) | |
| Organizational users | ||||||
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For-profit organizations | 180 (39-297) | 59 (37-129) | 364 (115-4915) | 17 (7-32) | 19 (7-133) |
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Nonprofit organizations | 148 (44-225) | 158 (74-206) | 24 (14-40) | 1 (0-2) | 1 (0-8) |
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News agencies | 145 (22-147) | 34 (18-51) | 12 (1-18) | 0 (0-0) | 3 (1-3) |
| Individual users | ||||||
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Health professionals | 407 (144-490) | 57 (49-59) | 1031 (170-3203) | 54 (8-161) | 58 (12-334) |
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Individual science communicators | 303 (147-491) | 85 (45-116) | 3 (1-11) | 0 (0-1) | 0 (0-5) |
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General users | 237 (133-394) | 40 (15-59) | 19 (9-49) | 2 (1-5) | 1 (0-7) |
| Overall | 276 (119-478) | 57 (43-88) | 125 (12-1597) | 7 (1-91) | 12 (1-118) | |