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Research Article

Scrolling for science: Assessing the quality and accuracy of Crohn’s disease-related content on Instagram reels

Sankirth Madabhushi ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: sankirth.madabhushi@umassmemorial.org

Affiliation Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6643-2415

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Ami Patel,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Samantha Tse-Kang,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Andrew Liu,

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Dhruval Amin,

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Abbas Rupawala

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Scrolling for science: Assessing the quality and accuracy of Crohn’s disease-related content on Instagram reels

Sankirth Madabhushi,
Ami Patel,
Samantha Tse-Kang,
Andrew Liu,
Dhruval Amin,
Abbas Rupawala

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Published: June 17, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0350430

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