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Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (542) Information Quality in Digital Media (345) Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (688) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1657) Diabetes Education and Elearning for Patients (116) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1362)

Published on in Vol 23, No 9 (2021): September

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/30409, first published .
TikTok as a Health Information Source: Assessment of the Quality of Information in Diabetes-Related Videos

TikTok as a Health Information Source: Assessment of the Quality of Information in Diabetes-Related Videos

TikTok as a Health Information Source: Assessment of the Quality of Information in Diabetes-Related Videos

Authors of this article:

Wenwen Kong1 Author Orcid Image ;   Shijie Song2 Author Orcid Image ;   Yuxiang Chris Zhao3 Author Orcid Image ;   Qinghua Zhu2 Author Orcid Image ;   Ling Sha4 Author Orcid Image
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Books/Policy Documents

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