ArticleClinical diabetes : a publication of the American Diabetes Association2025
The Sugar-Coated Truth: The Quality of Diabetes Health Information on TikTok.
Article in Clinical diabetes : a publication of the American Diabetes Association, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Management of type 2 diabetes, 2026. A consensus report by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD).Diabetologia · 2026Article
- Navigating Diabetes Management in the Digital Era: Scoping Review of Online Health Information-Seeking Behavior.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Quality and reliability of aortic dissection-related health information on TikTok and Bilibili: a cross-sectional content analysis study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2026Article
- The Information Void in Asymptomatic Chronic Disease: A Digital Health Framework for Understanding Social Media Health Information Seeking in Young Adults.JMIR infodemiology · 2026Article
- Young Adults With Type 1 Diabetes and Their Perspectives on Diabetes-Related Social Media: Qualitative Study.JMIR diabetes · 2025Article
- Exploring the Needs and Preferences of Users and Parents to Design a Mobile App to Deliver Mental Health Peer Support to Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes: Qualitative Study.JMIR diabetes · 2025Article
- Quality assessment of short videos on health science popularization in China: scale development and validation.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
This study aimed to assess diabetes health information found on TikTok and quantify misinformation on TikTok. The authors assessed 171 videos through two health literacy tools, DISCERN and the Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool for Audiovisual Materials, to rate the understandability and actionability of online medical content. The findings from this study encourage health care professionals to use social media platforms to provide factual information about diabetes and advise online health care consumers to use reputable sources such as trusted diabetes organizations' social media accounts, which tend to validate content with clinicians.
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Registered trials
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