What question did this study set out to answer?

To evaluate the quality and reliability of surgical information videos on social media platforms TikTok and Instagram.

Assessment of the Quality and Reliability of Social Media Videos for Patient Information on Common General Surgical Procedures

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Cross-sectional study evaluates video quality and reliability for surgical procedures on social media, suggesting patient caution.

To evaluate the quality and reliability of surgical information videos on social media platforms TikTok and Instagram.
Conducted a cross-sectional study of 300 videos across three surgical procedures on TikTok and Instagram.
Classified videos as useful, misleading, personal experience, or irrelevant.
Assessed video quality and reliability using the Global Quality Score (GQS) and modified DISCERN (mDISCERN) score.
Videos generally low in quality and reliability, with Instagram performing better than TikTok.
17.7% of videos were misleading; useful content was more frequent on Instagram (54.7%) than TikTok (9.3%).
Professional content deemed more useful than non-professional, with significantly higher quality and reliability scores.

Omar et al. (2026) studied this question.

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