ReviewZeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften = Journal of public health2023
Understanding misinformation infodemic during public health emergencies due to large-scale disease outbreaks: a rapid review.
Review in Zeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften = Journal of public health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.
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- Barriers to Public Health Trust-Building Using Social Media: A Qualitative Analysis.Disaster medicine and public health preparedness · 2025Article
- Interventions to Counter Health Misinformation Among Older People: Protocol for a Scoping Review.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Pregnant women's eHealth literacy and attitudes toward internet health information and their relationship to shared decision making: a cross-sectional study.Women's health nursing (Seoul, Korea) · 2025Article
- COVID-19 global risk evaluation: rankings, reducing surveillance bias, and infodemic.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Literacy and Language Barriers to Overcome in Laboratory Medicine.Clinics in laboratory medicine · 2024Review
- Variations in Unmet Health Care Needs by Perceptions of Social Media Health Mis- and Disinformation, Frequency of Social Media Use, Medical Trust, and Medical Care Discrimination: Cross-Sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Evaluating the impact of short animated videos on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: An online randomized controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2024Article
- eHealth literacy of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong in the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods study.PloS one · 2024Article
- The coronavirus disease 2019 infodemic: a concept analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- A sentiment and content analysis of tweets on monkeypox stigma among the LGBTQ+ community: A cue to risk communication plan.Dialogues in health · 2023Article
- (Why) Is Misinformation a Problem?Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2023Article
- Social Media Fact-Checking: The Effects of News Literacy and News Trust on the Intent to Verify Health-Related Information.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Aim: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths, impacted the flow of life and resulted in an immeasurable amount of socio-economic damage. However, not all of this damage is attributable to the disease itself; much of it has occurred due to the prevailing misinformation around COVID-19. This rapid integrative review will draw on knowledge from the literature about misinformation during previous abrupt large-scale infectious disease outbreaks to enable policymakers, governments and health institutions to proactively mitigate the spread and effect of misinformation. Subject and methods: For this rapid integrative review, we systematically searched MEDLINE and Google Scholar and extracted the literature on misinformation during abrupt large-scale infectious disease outbreaks since 2000. We screened articles using predetermined inclusion criteria. We followed an updated methodology for integrated reviews and adjusted it for our rapid review approach. Results: We found widespread misinformation in all aspects of large-scale infectious disease outbreaks since 2000, including prevention, treatment, risk factor, transmission mode, complications and vaccines. Conspiracy theories also prevailed, particularly involving vaccines. Misinformation most frequently has been reported regarding Ebola, and women and youth are particularly vulnerable to misinformation. A lack of scientific knowledge by individuals and a lack of trust in the government increased the consumption of misinformation, which is disseminated quickly by the unregulated media, particularly social media. Conclusion: This review identified the nature and pattern of misinformation during large-scale infectious disease outbreaks, which could potentially be used to address misinformation during the ongoing COVID-19 or any future pandemic.
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