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Evaluation of a template for countering misinformation-Real-world Autism treatment myth debunking.
Article in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.
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36 citing papers in PubMed.
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- The Challenge of Debunking Health Misinformation in Dynamic Social Media Conversations: Online Randomized Study of Public Masking During COVID-19.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- COVID-19 myth-busting: an experimental study.BMC public health · 2022Trial
- Debunking highly prevalent health misinformation using audio dramas delivered by WhatsApp: evidence from a randomised controlled trial in Sierra Leone.BMJ global health · 2021Trial
- Autism Early Intervention Providers: Their Priorities, Use of Empirically Supported Practices, and Professional Development Needs.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Factor Analysis of the Autism Spectrum Rating Scales Parent Report 6-18 in a Complex Community Sample.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- From emergence to amplification: an analysis of lifecycle models to address health mis-disinformation in the digital environment.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- Online Interventions Addressing Health Misinformation: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Countering AI-generated misinformation with pre-emptive source discreditation and debunking.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Protocol for an undergraduate student-led scoping review of methods used to conduct inclusive focus groups with autistic adolescents.PloS one · 2025Article
- The Effect of Correcting Neuromyths on Students' and Teachers' Later Reasoning.Journal of Intelligence · 2024Article
- Analysis of child development facts and myths using text mining techniques and classification models.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Don't believe them! Reducing misinformation influence through source discreditation.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- Inclusion of autistic students in schools: Knowledge, self-efficacy, and attitude of teachers in Germany.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2024Article
- A focus shift in the evaluation of misinformation interventions.Harvard Kennedy School misinformation review · 2023Article
- Listening to Misinformation while Driving: Cognitive Load and the Effectiveness of (Repeated) Corrections.Journal of applied research in memory and cognition · 2023Article
- Examining the replicability of backfire effects after standalone corrections.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2023Article
- Combining refutations and social norms increases belief change.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2023Article
- Effective mitigation of the belief perseverance bias after the retraction of misinformation: Awareness training and counter-speech.PloS one · 2023Article
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Abstract
Misinformation poses significant challenges to evidence-based practice. In the public health domain specifically, treatment misinformation can lead to opportunity costs or direct harm. Alas, attempts to debunk misinformation have proven sub-optimal, and have even been shown to "backfire", including increasing misperceptions. Thus, optimized debunking strategies have been developed to more effectively combat misinformation. The aim of this study was to test these strategies in a real-world setting, targeting misinformation about autism interventions. In the context of professional development training, we randomly assigned participants to an "optimized-debunking" or a "treatment-as-usual" training condition and compared support for non-empirically-supported treatments before, after, and six weeks following completion of online training. Results demonstrated greater benefits of optimized debunking immediately after training; thus, the implemented strategies can serve as a general and flexible debunking template. However, the effect was not sustained at follow-up, highlighting the need for further research into strategies for sustained change.
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