Each mental experts and young people who estimate 100 of the most popular videos in Tiktok have been requested about hyperactivity disorder and attention lack of a new study. This is what was discovered.
Famous videos for Tiktok about him Attention Hyper Activity Decision (ADHD) They are seen differently by medical experts Compared to young peopleAccording to a new study, it highlights the role that social networks play in forming our health perception.
The researchers asked two psychologists Doctors specializing in ADHD This will review 100 famous video clip of Tiktok about this disorder, which affects people’s behavior and It is characterized by the difficulty of focusing And hyperactivity or impulsivity.
Psychologists have discovered this Lower (48.7 %) of videos assurances It was exactly reflected According to a diagnostic guide. After that, the researchers made more than 800 university students seeing 10 videos TikhakThose who described more reliable experts.
The study, published on Wednesday in magazine “Plos One”, revealed a variation in the way experts and students imagine videos. In the case of the five videos Young people have given them the best value by psychologists, as they gave them a relatively less than 2.8, compared to an average of 3.6 out of 5 experts.
Young people describe the least reliable videos with 2.3 out of 5, much higher than 1.1 out of 5 who experts gave them. In general, this work has some important effects “It provides a balanced vision of the influence of social networks,” says Blander Fernish, a researcher at the University of Nottingham (UK) who has not participated in the study.
“But too It raises the concern of the spectators That trust in these contents as educational sources and support. He added that the lack of the nuances, the experimental basis and the reliability of these videos are very high.
Famous videos, a few creators who have accreditation data
The authors of the study discovered this The most videos watch #ADHD She was very popular, with nearly 500 million visits. Most videos did not refer to a source, and not only one in five of the content of the content of the video papers. More than a third indicates them in Perfil de Tiktok. 83.6 % of those referred to with their accreditation papers They pointed to their personal experience, while 13.1 % announced that they are consultants of life.
Only 1.6 % said to be a processor o The manager without providing information about the license, 1.6 % said they were the licensed mental health factor. According to researchers, none of the users announced that he is a doctor, psychiatrist or doctor. About half of the creators They promoted products Or request a kind of financial compensation.
The search is “a starting point
People who have ADHD self -diagnosis or official diagnosis They tended to see more videos, and those who had a self -diagnosis saw the worst videos of more positive psychology than those with a clinical diagnosis. According to French, it is a The fact “interesting, but likely to worry.”
He said: “The diagnosed group seemed more able to distinguish between the quality of information, while the self -diagnosis was not much.” Among the limits of the study is the fact that University students were on the subject of psychology Most of them were women, so external experts warn of the risk of generalizing results. The authors of the study claim that the research “provides a starting point for an understanding ADHD representation En tiktok.
“Tiktok can be an incredible tool “In a statement, to increase awareness and reduce the stigma, but also has a discomfort,” said Vazilia Krasafva, a physician in clinical psychology at the University of Columbia, in Canada and the main author of the study, in a statement, to increase awareness and reduce the stigma, but also has a disturbance. “Stories and personal experiences are strongBut when they lack the context, it can lead to a misunderstanding about hyperactivity disorder, lack of attention and mental health in general.
