A scoping review of digital health interventions for combating COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We provide a scoping review of Digital Health Interventions (DHIs) that mitigate COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation seeding and spread.

Materials and methods

We applied our search protocol to PubMed, PsychINFO, and Web of Science to screen 1666 articles. The 17 articles included in this paper are experimental and interventional studies that developed and tested public consumer-facing DHIs. We examined these DHIs to understand digital features, incorporation of theory, the role of healthcare professionals, end-user experience, and implementation issues.

Results

The majority of studies (n = 11) used social media in DHIs, but there was a lack of platform-agnostic generalizability. Only half of the studies (n = 9) specified a theory, framework, or model

SUBMITTER: Czerniak K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10018269 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature