Trial reportJournal of medical Internet research2022
Effect of Source Type and Protective Message on the Critical Evaluation of News Messages on Facebook: Randomized Controlled Trial in the Netherlands.
Trial report in Journal of medical Internet research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05030883 (The Effect of Source Type and Protective Message on the Critical Evaluation of News Messages on Facebook), which is not on this map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Effect of Source Type and Protective Message on the Critical Evaluation of News Messages on Facebook: An Experimental Study in the Netherlands.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Social Media as an Effective Provider of Quality-Assured and Accurate Information to Increase Vaccine Rates: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Pooled it
- Distractions, analytical thinking and falling for fake news: A survey of psychological factors.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2023Review
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8 authors.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundDisinformation has become an increasing societal concern, especially due to the speed that news is shared in the digital era. In particular, disinformation in the health care sector can lead to serious casualties, as the current COVID-19 crisis clearly shows.
objectiveThe main aim of this study was to experimentally examine the effects of information about the source and a protective warning message on users' critical evaluation of news items, as well as the perception of accuracy of the news item.
methodsA 3 (unreliable vs reliable vs no identified source) × 2 (with protective message vs without) between-subject design was conducted among 307 participants (mean age 29 (SD 10.9] years).
resultsThe results showed a significant effect of source information on critical evaluation. In addition, including a protective message did not significantly affect critical evaluation. The results showed no interaction between type of source and protective message on critical evaluation.
conclusionsBased on these results, it is questionable whether including protective messages to improve critical evaluation is a way to move forward and improve critical evaluation of health-related news items, although effective methodologies to tackle the spread of disinformation are highly needed.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT05030883; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05030883.
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