Clinical trial NCT04377581: COVID-19 Health Messaging Efficacy and Its Impact on Public Perception, Anxiety, and Behavior
Official title: COVID-19 Health Messaging Efficacy and Its Impact on Public Perception, Anxiety, and Behavior
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Public Health
Demography
Pandemics
Corona Virus Infection
News
Global Health
Perception
Keywords: Penn State
CHIME
COVID-19 Messaging Study
Lead sponsor: Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences
name: The Social Science Research Institute
name: The Department of Family and Community Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine
name: The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME)
First posted: 2020-05-06
Enrollment: 18251
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Human Adults

Brief summary: Effective communication is a critical component of managing pandemic outbreaks like COVID-19. This study explores COVID-19 related public knowledge, perceptions, belief in public health recommendations, intent to comply with public health recommendations, trust in information sources and preferred information sources. Participants are invited to include detailed free-text answers to make sure their COVID-19 experiences are heard.

Detailed description: The survey is available online in 23 languages. Free-text responses in native languages are highly encouraged. A robust global response will not only provide invaluable information to inform clinicians, healthcare institutions and governments about how to optimize the content and venue of COVID-19 messaging, but will help write a Story of COVID in the words and languages of people from all over the world.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years of age

Exclusion Criteria:

* Below 18 years of age

Primary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge and Confidence in Knowledge of COVID-19
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
measure: Beliefs about the effectiveness of public health recommendations
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
measure: Intent to comply with public health recommendations
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
measure: Perception of Risk of COVID-19 and other health threats
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
measure: Perceptions of trust in common health information sources
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
measure: Single most trusted news source
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Intention to change consumption of news because of COVID-19 (yes/no)
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
measure: For participants who will change their news consumption, in what way will they change?
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
measure: Secondary information sources
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
measure: Concerns about COVID-19
timeFrame: Through study completion, an average of 3 months.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Hershey
country: United States
facility: Penn State College of Medicine
state: Pennsylvania
Study officials:
affiliation: Penn State College of Medicine
name: Robert P Lennon, MD, JD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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