Table 4 CAD-related TikTok videos characteristics by the title of medical professionals.

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

 

Senior professional title* (n = 69)

Intermediate professional title* (n = 29)

Total (n = 122)

P value

Video length (seconds), mean

107.7

131.3

114.4

0.024

Time since posting, mean

12.8

14.2

12.9

0.496

Number of “likes”, mean

17120.1

65471.0

31380.2

< 0.001

Number of comments, mean

731.4

2330.5

1202.6

< 0.001

Number of “Favorites”, mean

824.2

6139.6

2393.8

0.003

Number of followers of the video creator, mean

555,500.2

3,140,765.0

1,314,824.0

< 0.001

  1. *Senior professional title: a high-level professional designation, equivalent to an attending physician in the U.S. system. Intermediate professional title: a mid-level professional designation, comparable to a fellow physician in the U.S.
  2. CAD, coronary artery disease.