COVID-19 infodemic and digital health literacy in vulnerable populations: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People from lower and middle socioeconomic classes and vulnerable populations are among the worst affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, thus exacerbating disparities and the digital divide.

Objective

To draw a portrait of e-services as a digital approach to support digital health literacy in vulnerable populations amid the COVID-19 infodemic, and identify the barriers and facilitators for their implementation.

Methods

A scoping review was performed to gather published literature with a broad range of study designs and grey literature without exclusions based on country of publication. A search was created in Medline (Ovid) in March 2021 and translated to Medline, PsycINFO, Scopus and CINAHL with Full Text (EBSCOhost). The combined literature search generated 8

SUBMITTER: Choukou MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8874333 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature