Researchers from Duke University used a web-scraping application to download and compile the top 100 most viewed videos tagged #IUD on TikTok.
They found that nearly 38% had a negative tone compared to just 19% with a positive tone. Just under 28% mentioned distrust of health care professionals, while around 24% contained “moderately or highly inaccurate scientific claims,” according to the researchers.
The videos typically discussed IUD insertion and removal, and patients in the videos sometimes said they weren’t offered enough pain relief or experienced negative side effects. “Inevitably a lot of negative videos tend to garner more attention on these applications, and so I think there is a lot of negativity towards birth control on TikTok,” said Jenny Wu, a resident obstetrician-gynecologist at Duke who helped conduct the research. “That’s not to say that it is not a real lived experience because IUDs are quite painful. It is definitely an uphill battle when I feel like the algorithm does not work in favor of positive videos towards this.”in preventing pregnancy.
Inevitably a lot of negative videos tend to garner more attention on these applications, and so I think there is a lot of negativity towards birth control on TikTok.TikTok can be a resource for sharing information about reproductive health care, but it’s also brimming with videos about users’ personal experiences with different types of birth control — many of which are negative.
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