Tubal Permanent Contraception on TikTok: Content Themes and Quality of Educational Videos.

StudyContraception· Jul 2026

Tubal Permanent Contraception on TikTok: Content Themes and Quality of Educational Videos.

Jayne Caron, Kevin Petersen, Olivia Bruyn, Erica Cahill

Read paper

Family Planning & ContraceptionStudyQ1IF 2.1

Healthcare provider-made tubal contraception videos scored higher quality than others on TikTok

Tubal Permanent Contraception on TikTok: Content Themes and Quality of Educational Videos.

Jayne Caron … Erica Cahill

Contraception · Jul 2026 · Q1 in Obstetrics & Gynecology

Purpose

This study describes the content of TikTok videos related to tubal permanent contraception and evaluates the quality, understandability and actionability of the educational videos on tubal permanent contraception on TikTok by creator type.

Methods

A TikTok Data webscraper tool was used to download and extract information of the top 500 videos on TikTok videos with hashtags related to tubal permanent contraception.

n = 500 videos

Results

Healthcare providers-made videos scored meaningfully higher for content quality

MD 1.79 (95% CI 1.36 to 2.23)

CI excludes the null - significant

More results

Subthemes included experiences with providers including barriers to access and coercion.

“

Conclusion

Healthcare providers (healthcare providers) created higher quality and more understandable videos on permanent contraception, highlighting the importance of HCPs as a source of health information on social media.

Tubal Permanent Contraception on TikTok: Content Themes and Quality of Educational Videos.

Tubal Permanent Contraception on TikTok: Content Themes and Quality of Educational Videos.

Related papers