Animations to communicate public health prevention messages: a realist review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

With digital and social media advances, animated health communications (health animations) are highly prevalent globally, yet the evidence base underpinning them remains unclear and limited. While individual studies have attempted to explore the effectiveness, acceptability and usability of specific features of health animations, there is substantial heterogeneity in study design, comparators and the animation design and content. Consequently, there is a need to synthesise evidence of health animations using an approach that recognises this contextual complexity, which may affect their impact.

Methods and analysis

This project aims to understand why, how, for whom, to what extent and in which contexts health animations are expected to promote preventive health b

SUBMITTER: McCorry K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11331919 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature