The causes, impacts and countermeasures of COVID-19 “Infodemic”: A systematic review using narrative synthesis

W Pian, J Chi, F Ma - Information processing & management, 2021 - Elsevier
An unprecedented infodemic has been witnessed to create massive damage to human
society. However, it was not thoroughly investigated. This systematic review aims to (1) …

Health authorities' health risk communication with the public during pandemics: a rapid scoping review

SH Berg, JK O'hara, MT Shortt, H Thune, KK Brønnick… - BMC Public Health, 2021 - Springer
Background Responses from the H1N1 swine flu pandemic and the recent COVID-19
coronavirus pandemic provide an opportunity for insight into the role of health authorities' …

The covid-19 infodemic: Twitter versus facebook

KC Yang, F Pierri, PM Hui, D Axelrod… - Big Data & …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The global spread of the novel coronavirus is affected by the spread of related
misinformation—the so-called COVID-19 Infodemic—that makes populations more …

YouTube as a source of information on gout: a quality analysis

ME Onder, O Zengin - Rheumatology International, 2021 - Springer
YouTube is a popular video-sharing platform commonly visited by patients and healthcare
professionals for medical information. Gout is the most frequent cause of inflammatory …

[HTML][HTML] The reliability and quality of YouTube videos as a source of public health information regarding COVID-19 vaccination: cross-sectional study

C Chan, V Sounderajah, E Daniels… - JMIR public health …, 2021 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background: Recent emergency authorization and rollout of COVID-19 vaccines by
regulatory bodies has generated global attention. As the most popular video-sharing …

Quality of English-language videos available on YouTube as a source of information on osteoporosis

ME Onder, CE Onder, O Zengin - Archives of Osteoporosis, 2022 - Springer
Osteoporosis awareness is essential for preventing osteoporotic fractures. Social media
platforms have enormous potential to both support and deter patients' decisions on …

YouTube as a source of information about physical exercise during COVID-19 outbreak

RL Vancini, R Borges Viana… - International Journal of …, 2022 - zora.uzh.ch
Context: Physical inactivity levels in the course of the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
outbreak increased significantly. Our aim was to address how the information related to the …

[HTML][HTML] Global misinformation spillovers in the vaccination debate before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Multilingual Twitter study

J Lenti, Y Mejova, K Kalimeri, A Panisson… - JMIR …, 2023 - infodemiology.jmir.org
Background Antivaccination views pervade online social media, fueling distrust in scientific
expertise and increasing the number of vaccine-hesitant individuals. Although previous …

Superlatives, clickbaits, appeals to authority, poor grammar, or boldface: Is editorial style related to the credibility of online health messages?

K Greškovičová, R Masaryk, N Synak… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Adolescents, as active online searchers, have easy access to health information. Much
health information they encounter online is of poor quality and even contains potentially …

Health misinformation on social media: A systematic literature review and future research directions

YJ Li, JJ Marga, CMK Cheung… - … on Human-Computer …, 2022 - scholars.cityu.edu.hk
Health misinformation on social media is an emerging public concern as the COVID-19
infodemic tragically evidences. Key challenges that empower health misinformation's spread …