Research Guides: Correcting Misinformation with Patients: Resources, Guides, and Strategies

Guides and Strategies

CommunicateHealth
CommunicateHealth creates digital strategies to improve health literacy and communication, from advice to parents to addressing veterans' health needs.
Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) Research Guide
Himmelfarb's research guide for CAM, including definitions for CAM, how to find articles related to CAM and how to evaluate evidence.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Mythbusters
The WHO'S guide to separating fact from fiction in regard to COVID-19.
COVID-101
COVID-101 is your resource for reliable, easy-to-understand answers to all your questions on the COVID-19 Pandemic.
DISCERN Online
DISCERN is a brief questionnaire which provides users with a valid and reliable way of assessing the quality of written information on treatment choices for a health problem.
Evaluating Health Information
The University of California, San Francisco's patient education guide, featuring "red flags" for consumers to watch out for.
HHS: Addressing Health Misinformation
The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Healthy Information Environment, 2021.
NIH Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL)
The Community Engagement Alliance (CEAL) Against COVID-19 Disparities works closely with the communities hit hardest by COVID-19.
A Social Media Toolkit for Healthcare Practitioners
This toolkit aims to provide healthcare workers with the tools, skills and content needed to effectively share authentic and reliable information online. Centered around three core vaccine confidence messages, Vaccine Safety, Vaccine Development and Vaccine Reducing Risk of Sickness; this toolkit sets out three approaches: creating your own posts, posting the images and videos provided in the toolkit, or resharing vaccine information from trusted sources.
WHO: Infodemic Management
"Infodemic" refers to the overabundance of information that occurs during an epidemic can lead to confusion and ultimately mistrust in governments and public health response. "The right message at the right time from the right messenger through the right medium can save lives - misinformation or mixed messages can cost lives."

Identifying and Combating Health Misinformation Online

A series of webinars hosted by the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) explores ways to identify and correct medical misinformation from Wikipedia, social media, and more. Speakers discuss various aspects of online health misinformation, how to identify it, and how to help curb its spread.

Correction of Health Misinformation on Social Media - This presentation covers research on the correction of misinformation on social media. It also discusses misinformation on social media in general, how and why to correct it, and best practices for doing so. September 2020.

Identifying and Combating Health Misinformation: Health and Medical Information on Wikipedia - This webinar gives special attention to health and medical information articles, fringe theories, and controversial topics covered in the news. You can gain an insiders’ perspective on the editorial process of Wikipedia to confidently evaluate the quality of health and medical information articles and content on the popular free online encyclopedia. October 2020.

Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy and Social Media's Role In Spreading Vaccine Misinformation - March 2021.

Addressing Health Misinformation at the Scale of the Internet - In this session, we will focus on the unique role that health practitioners, experts and library systems can play in responding to related challenges. March 2021.

Podcasts & Videos

Podcasts

The Code Switch podcast: A Shot in the Dark
An examination of the how the Tuskegee experiment impacts modern views on vaccinations.
The Grapevine Health Podcast
Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick facilitates conversations between community members and experts to help dispel myths and help people understand the nuances of the medical or scientific info being shared.
NPR Shortwave - How to Correct Misinformation, According to Science.
In this episode, Maddie talks with Invisibilia reporter Yowei Shaw about one man's very unusual approach to correcting his family. And we hear from experts about what actually works when trying to combat misinformation.
PBS News Hour - How one doctor’s love for poetry helps him communicate with patients better
A look at the intersection of the alchemy of health and art with his profile of Fady Joudah, the physician-poet — or perhaps poet-physician.

Videos

ACP's Physician to Physician Conversations series
Short videos share "practical strategies for physicians and other members of the health care team to address vaccine misinformation and build trust in COVID-19 and routine vaccinations"

Additional Reading

GW-Authored Works

Health Literacy and Libraries
Edited by Emily Vardell and Deborah Charbonneau, this book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of health literacy work in libraries.
Videos, Views, and Vaccines: Evaluating the Quality of COVID-19 Communications on YouTube

Recommended courses

Immunization Education & Training - CDC offers many immunization education and training programs for healthcare personnel. A variety of topics and formats are available which discuss immunization basics and vaccine-specific information.

Vaccine Communication Strategies for Healthcare Providers - provided through the DC Department of Health, "this module reviews the population health impact of vaccinations on the community. This includes the vaccine campaigns, health benefits, risk-factors, vaccine hesitancy and impact of misinformation so that health professionals can effectively communicate with patients about vaccinations. This module will be a lecture style format with integrated questions throughout. This module will be approximately 1 hour in length for viewing and completion of the evaluation. This module is approved for 1 hour of CME."