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Inequity Driven Mistrust: Its Impacts to Infodemic Management and Health Response and What to Do About It

Alejandro Posada, Rocio Lopez Inigo, Majid Beesyna

Internews; USAID (2023), 45 pp.

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People vs. ‘god of plague’: Socialist China’s anti-zoonotic campaign media as environmental media

Yiman Wang

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 4, issue 1 (2023), pp. 147-166

"This article cross-pollinates environmental media studies with socialist China’s anti-snail fever campaign media, including two 1965 science education films, a 1961 song book, all entitled ‘Song wensheng’ (‘Sending away god of plague’), and a 1970 'Chijiao yisheng shouce' (‘The handbook ... more

‘It is Guiding Us to Protect Ourselves’: A Qualitative Investigation Into Why Young People Engage with a Mass-Media HIV Education Campaign

Venetia Baker, Sarah Mulwa, Sophie Sarrassat, David Khanyile, Simon Cousens, Cherie Cawood, Isolde Birdthistle

Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 25, issue 7 (2023), pp. 803-817

"This study explores how and why young people engage with MTV Shuga, a popular mass media campaign in South Africa, to understand what makes effective HIV edutainment. Young MTV Shuga viewers from the Eastern Cape, South Africa and their parents participated in remote individual interviews and focus ... more

A Systematic Review of Communication Interventions for Countering Vaccine Misinformation

Hannah S. Whitehead, Clare E. French, Deborah M. Caldwell, Louise Letley, Sandra Mounier-Jack

Vaccine, volume 41, issue 5 (2023), pp. 1018-1034

"We conducted a systematic review to identify and describe communications-based strategies used to prevent and ameliorate the effect of mis- and disinformation on people’s attitudes and behaviours surrounding vaccination (objective 1) and examined their effectiveness (objective 2) [...] Of 2000 id ... more

The Prevalence, Features, Influencing Factors, and Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Systematic Review

Sihong Zhao, Simeng Hu, Xiaoyu Zhou et al.

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, volume 9, issue e40201 (2023), 23 pp.

"This review aims to synthesize the global evidence on misinformation related to COVID-19 vaccines, including its prevalence, features, influencing factors, impacts, and solutions for combating misinformation. We performed a systematic review by searching 5 peer-reviewed databases (PubMed, Embase, W ... more

Alkoholismus, Drogenmissbrauch und Rausch in Film und Fernsehen: Bibliographie

Hans Jürgen Wulff, Martha-Lotta Körber, Ludger Kaczmarek

Westerkappeln (DE): DerWulff.de, erw. Neuausg. (2023), 115 pp.

COVID-19 and the Constructions of Africa in African News Media

Mphathisi Ndlovu, Maame Nikabs

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 179-198

"This article examines the constructions of Africa in COVID-19-related stories that were produced by African news media. Dominant scholarship indicates that western media generally reproduce and perpetuate harmful stereotypes on Africa. Given that there is scant literature on how African media cover ... more

Nudging Knowledge: Tackling Health Misinformation in Humanitarian Settings Using Behavioral Science
Key Guidance

Nairobi: Busara (2023), 46 pp.

"This guide does not require prior knowledge or experience in behavioral science. It will be relevant for you if you are an actor in a humanitarian setting look to: 1. Design a Theory of Change for a program aiming to change people’s beliefs or behaviors: This guide can be used by several actors. ... more

Public Health Literacy and Community Media in Europe

Birgitte Jallov, Helmut Peissl

European Excellence Exchange in Journalism (E3J); Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE); COMMIT (2023), 149 pp.

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Conspiracy theories in the time of COVID-19

Clare Birchall, Peter Knight

London; New York: Routledge (2023), x, 237 pp.

"Conspiracy Theories in the Time of Covid-19 provides a wide-ranging analysis of the emergence and development of conspiracy theories during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a focus on the US and the UK. The book combines digital methods analysis of large datasets assembled from social media with politic ... more

Distribution and Reception of Conspiracy Theories and Mobilization Calls on Telegram: Combining Evidence from a Content Analysis and Survey During the Pandemic

Leyla Dogruel, Simon Kruschinski, Pablo Jost, Pascal Jürgens

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft, volume 71, issue 3-4 (2023), pp. 230-247

"Despite increased academic attention’s focus on conspiracy theories on Telegram, existing research has two major limitations: (1) a lack of combined examination of the distribution and reception of conspiracy theories, and (2) insufficient understanding of the relationship between the reception o ... more

Follow the Money: The Missing Link in the Booming Coverage of Mental Health

Tanmoy Goswami

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 36 pp.

Exploring the Role of Message Effects and Messenger Effectiveness in COVID-19 Vaccination Communication in Nigeria: Research Report

San Diego: Agency for All Project; University of California San Diego, Center on Gender Equity and Health; USAID (2023), 57 pp.

Building a Chatbot in a Pandemic

Kimberly Rambaud, Simon van Woerden, Leonardo Palumbo et al.

Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 25, issue e42960 (2023), 8 pp.

"Easy access to evidence-based information on COVID-19 within an infodemic has been a challenging task. Chatbots have been introduced in times of emergency, when human resources are stretched thin and individuals need a user-centered resource. The World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe ... more

The Impact of a Large-Scale Social and Behavior Change Communication Intervention in the Lake Zone Region of Tanzania on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Stunting Prevention

Kirk Dearden, Generose Mulokozi, Mary Linehan et al.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, volume 20, issue 2:1214 (2023), 13 pp.

"Background: Large-scale social and behavioral change communication (SBCC) approaches can be beneficial to achieve improvements in knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP). Addressing Stunting in Tanzania Early (ASTUTE) included a significant SBCC component and targeted precursors to stunting inclu ... more

Media, Social Pressure, and Combating Misinformation: Experimental Evidence on Mass Media and Contraception Use in Burkina Faso

Rachel Glennerster, Joanna Murray, Victor Pouliquen

J-PAL Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (2023), 45 pp.

"Using a two-level randomized experiment covering 5 million people in Burkina Faso, we examine the impact on family planning knowledge and behavior of both general exposure to mass media (800 women receive radios in status quo areas) and an intensive evidence-based family planning campaign (8 of 16 ... more

Persuasive COVID-19 Vaccination Campaigns on Facebook and Nationwide Vaccination Coverage in Ukraine, India, and Pakistan

Maike Winters, Sarah Christie, Chelsey Lepage et al.

Plos Global Public Health, volume 3, issue 9 (2023), 18 pp.

"Social media platforms have a wide and influential reach, and as such provide anopportunity to increase vaccine uptake. To date, there is no large-scale, robust evidence on the offline effects of online messaging campaigns. We aimed to test whether pre-tested, persuasive messaging campaigns from UN ... more

Effect of Short, Animated Video Storytelling on Maternal Knowledge and Satisfaction in the Perinatal Period in South Africa: Randomized Controlled Trial

Maya Adam, Zwannda Kwinda, Mithilesh Dronavalli et al.

Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 25, issue e47266 (2023), 13 pp.

"Innovative mobile health (mHealth) interventions can improve maternal knowledge, thereby supporting national efforts to reduce preventable maternal and child mortality in South Africa. Studies have documented a potential role for mobile video content to support perinatal health messaging, enhance m ... aternal satisfaction, and overcome literacy barriers. Short, animated storytelling (SAS) is an innovative, emerging approach to mHealth messaging. Objective: We aimed to measure the effect of SAS videos on maternal knowledge and user satisfaction for mothers enrolled in antenatal care programs at 2 public health facilities in the Tshwane District of South Africa. Methods: We used a randomized controlled trial with a nested evaluation of user satisfaction. Participants were randomized 1:1 into Standard-of-Care (SOC) Control, and SAS Intervention groups. The intervention videos were delivered through WhatsApp, and 1 month later, participants responded to telephone surveys assessing their knowledge. The intervention group then participated in a nested evaluation of user satisfaction [...] Conclusions: While the SAS videos resulted in high user satisfaction, measured knowledge gains were small within a participant population that was already receiving perinatal health messages through antenatal clinics. The higher knowledge scores observed in older participants with higher education levels suggest that boosting maternal knowledge in younger mothers with lower education levels should continue to be a public health priority in South Africa. Given the high maternal satisfaction among the SAS video-users in this study, policy makers should consider integrating similar approaches into existing, broad-reaching perinatal health programs, such as MomConnect, to boost satisfaction and potentially enhance maternal engagement. While previous studies have shown the promise of animated video health education, most of this research has been conducted in high-income countries. More research in underresourced settings is urgently needed, especially as access to mobile technology increases in the Global South. Future studies should explore the effect of SAS videos on maternal knowledge in hard-to-reach populations with limited access to antenatal care, although real-world logistical challenges persist when implementing studies in underresourced South African populations." (Abstract) more

The Psychological Impacts and Message Features of Health Misinformation: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials

Philipp Schmid, Sacha Altay, Laura D. Scherer

European Psychologist, volume 28, issue 3 (2023), pp. 162-172

"What does health misinformation look like, and what is its impact? We conducted a systematic review of 45 articles containing 64 randomized controlled trials (RCTs; N = 37,552) on the impact of health misinformation on behaviors and their psychological antecedents. We applied a planetary health per ... more

Evaluating Use of Mass-Media Communication Intervention ‘MTV-Shuga’ on Increased Awareness and Demand for HIV and Sexual Health Services by Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa: An Observational Study

Natsayi Chimbindi, Nondumiso Mthiyane, Chidumwa, Thembelihle Zuma, Jaco Dreyer

BMJ Open, volume 13, issue e062804 (2023), 12 pp.

"Objective: To investigate the effect of exposure to 'MTV Shuga:Down South’ (MTVShuga-DS) during the scale-up of combination HIV-prevention interventions on awareness and uptake of sexual reproductive health (SRH) and HIV-prevention services by adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) [...] Conclus ... more