Interventions to Mitigate COVID-19 Misinformation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

被引：34

作者：

Janmohamed, Kamila ^{[1
]}

Walter, Nathan ^{[2
]}

Nyhan, Kate ^{[3
]}

Khoshnood, Kaveh ^{[4
]}

Tucker, Joseph D. ^{[5
,6
,7
]}

Sangngam, Natalie ^{[1
]}

Altice, Frederick L. ^{[4
,8
]}

Ding, Qinglan ^{[9
]}

Wong, Allie ^{[10
]}

Schwitzky, Zachary M. ^{[10
]}

Bauch, Chris T. ^{[11
]}

De Choudhury, Munmun ^{[12
]}

Papakyriakopoulos, Orestis ^{[13
]}

Kumar, Navin ^{[8
]}

机构：

[1] Yale Coll, New Haven, CT USA

[2] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL USA

[3] Yale Univ, Harvey Cushing John Hay Whitney Med Lib, New Haven, CT USA

[4] Yale Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Epidemiol Microbial Dis, New Haven, CT USA

[5] Univ North Carolina Chapel Hill Project China, Guangzhou, Peoples R China

[6] Univ N Carolina, Sch Med, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 USA

[7] London Sch Hyg & Trop Med, Fac Infect & Trop Dis, London, England

[8] Yale Sch Med, Sect Infect Dis, New Haven, CT USA

[9] Purdue Univ, Coll Hlth & Human Sci, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA

[10] Limbik, New York, NY USA

[11] Univ Waterloo, Dept Appl Math, Waterloo, ON, Canada

[12] Georgia Tech, Sch Interact Comp, Atlanta, GA USA

[13] Princeton Univ, Ctr Informat Technol Policy, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF HEALTH COMMUNICATION | 2021年 / 26卷 / 12期

关键词：

SOCIAL MEDIA; SUPPORT; POWER; BIAS;

D O I：

10.1080/10810730.2021.2021460

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

The duration and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic depends largely on individual and societal actions which are influenced by the quality and salience of the information to which they are exposed. Unfortunately, COVID-19 misinformation has proliferated. Despite growing attempts to mitigate COVID-19 misinformation, there is still uncertainty regarding the best way to ameliorate the impact of COVID-19 misinformation. To address this gap, the current study uses a meta-analysis to evaluate the relative impact of interventions designed to mitigate COVID-19-related misinformation. We searched multiple databases and gray literature from January 2020 to September 2021. The primary outcome was COVID-19 misinformation belief. We examined study quality and meta-analysis was used to pool data with similar interventions and outcomes. 16 studies were analyzed in the meta-analysis, including data from 33378 individuals. The mean effect size of interventions to mitigate COVID-19 misinformation was positive, but not statistically significant [d = 2.018, 95% CI (-0.14, 4.18), p = .065, k = 16]. We found evidence of publication bias. Interventions were more effective in cases where participants were involved with the topic, and where text-only mitigation was used. The limited focus on non-U.S. studies and marginalized populations is concerning given the greater COVID-19 mortality burden on vulnerable communities globally. The findings of this meta-analysis describe the current state of the literature and prescribe specific recommendations to better address the proliferation of COVID-19 misinformation, providing insights helpful to mitigating pandemic outcomes.

引用

页码：846 / 857

页数：12