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ArticlePatient education and counseling2020

Effective health communication - a key factor in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.

Arnstein Finset, Hayden Bosworth, Phyllis Butow, Pål Gulbrandsen, Robert L Hulsman, Arwen H Pieterse, Richard Street, Robin Tschoetschel, Julia van Weert

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Article in Patient education and counseling, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 140 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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140citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

140 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Arnstein FinsetPatient Education and Counseling. Electronic address: arnstein.finset@medisin.uio.no.
Hayden BosworthDivision of General Internal Medicine, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
Phyllis ButowSchool of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
Pål GulbrandsenHealth Services ResearchUnit HØKH, Akershus University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Robert L HulsmanDept. Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Arwen H PieterseDept. of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
Richard StreetDepartment of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
Robin TschoetschelAmsterdam School of Communication Research / ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Julia van WeertAmsterdam School of Communication Research / ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Funding

HSR&D Senior Research Career Scientist AwardIK6HX003161 · VA · DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER · PI Hayden B Bosworth · 2020 to 2026
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HSRD VA IK6 HX003161
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

CoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsFearHealth CommunicationPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19Disease OutbreaksHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2Stress, PsychologicalUncertainty

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PMID32336348
PMCPMC7180027

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