Table 1 Characteristics of CAD-related TikTok videos by sources.

From: Evaluating the quality of TikTok videos on coronary artery disease using various scales to examine correlations with video characteristics and high-quality content

 

Medical professionals (n = 98)

User-generated content (n = 11)

News programs (n = 4)

Health agencies or organizations (n = 9)

Total (n = 122)

P value

Video length (seconds), median

85.5

85.0

52.5

57.0

76.5

0.110

Time since posting (months), median

13.0

19.0

18.0

13.0

14.0

0.352

Number of “likes”, median

1086.5

4414.0

2999.0

1954.0

1255.0

0.427

Number of comments, median

63.5

212.0

42.0

36.0

63.5

0.262

Number of “favorites”, median

133.5

323.0

84.0

157.0

160.0

0.160

Number of followers of the video creator, median

443,000.0

559,000.0

1,223,500.0

750,000.0

471,500.0

0.787

  1. CAD, coronary artery disease.