Health information on tiktok can be misleading
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More than half of the claims made in the popular ticket video about attention deficit activity disorder (ADHD) do not align with clinical guidelines-due to which some people can misunderstand with ADHD.
Adhd affects About 1 percent According to the disease study according to the global burden of people around the world. There is an active debate about whether ADHD has been reduced; Some psychologists say that the actual ratio of people may be more with it.
To understand the impact of social media on the perceptions of ADHD, Wasilia Karsavva The British University of Columbia (UBC), in Canada, and his colleagues watched the 100 most watched video with the hashtag #ADHD on Tiktok on 10 January 2023. The video collectively preferred around 496 million scenes and an average of 984,000.
The average video had three claims about ADHD. Researchers presented each claim to two psychologists, who were asked if they correctly reflect a symptom of ADHD from DSM -5, a popular textbook is used to diagnose mental disorders. Only 48.7 percent claims met that requirement. More than two-thirds of videos attributed ADHD to forbbles or alleged issues that psychologists stated that “normal human experience” is reflected.
“We had two experts watching the top 100 most popular videos, and found that he did not really match empirical literature,” says Karsavva. “Like we are,” Okay, this is a problem. “
Researchers asked psychologists to rate the video on a scale of 0 to 5. He then asked 843 UBC students to watch the video rated by psychologists as five best and five worst ADHDs, and then rated them. Psychologists scored a more clinically accurate video on average 3.6, while the students rated them 2.8. For the least accurate video, the students gave them an average score 2.3 compared to 1.1 from psychologists.
Students were also asked questions about whether they would recommend the video, and about their perceptions of the prevalence of ADHD in the society. “When you saw the ingredients related to ADHD on Tikok,” says Karsavva, it increased how much you are likely to recommend the video and identify them as useful and accurate. “
“One wonder how normal the results are for all health materials on Ticketkok or Internet,” says David alice Bath University, UK. “We live in a world where we know a lot about health, yet the online world is still awake with misinformation. Tickk is just reflecting that reality.”
Alice says that when considering mental health issues, medical misinformation is likely to be even higher as they are diagnosed on the basis of comments rather than more purpose tests.
Karsavava says, but banning ADHD video on Ticketkok is “not helpful” – even if they are misunderstanding. “Perhaps more experts should keep more videos out, or perhaps it can be just a personal user who can take it on themselves, which is a little more intelligent and important about the material they consumed,” she says.
Tiktok refused to comment on the nuances of research but told New scientist This medical takes action against misinformation and that anyone should contact a medical professional in search of diagnosis or diagnosis of neurological conditions.
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