Table 2.
Characters of included videos
| Category | Description | TikTok (In English) (n = 78) |
TikTok (In Japanese) (n = 63) |
Douyin (In Chinese) (n = 99) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video source | Health professionals | 5 (6.4%) | 3 (4.8%) | 57 (57.6%) |
| Private users | 73 (93.6%) | 60 (95.2%) | 3 (3.0%) | |
| News network | - | - | 32 (32.3%) | |
| Others | - | - | 7 (7.1%) | |
| Video characteristics | Number of days online | 134 (5–528) | 180 (11–1079) | 101 (1–727) |
| Number of views | 6597 (14–12.3 M) | - | - | |
| Number of likes | 237 (0–2.9 M) | 83 (0–41,700) | 3568 (7–610.4 K) | |
| Number of comments | 19 (0–22.5 K) | 10 (0–1672) | 118 (1-14 K) | |
| Video duration | 30 (9–80) | 35 (9–60) | 51 (9–405) | |
| Content | Patient experience/testimony | 44 (56.4%) | 26 (41.3%) | - |
| Education | 16 (21.8%) | 11 (17.4%) | 93 (93.9%) | |
| Patient support | 16 (21.8%) | 26 (41.3%) | 6 (6.1%) | |
| Information reliability | Useful | 16 (20.5%) | 11 (17.5%) | 93 (93.9%) |
| Useless | 62 (79.5%) | 52 (82.5%) | 6 (6.1%) |
Data are expressed as the number of cases (percentage) or median(range)