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. 2017 Jul;22(7):612-629.
doi: 10.1080/10810730.2017.1338802. Epub 2017 Jul 6.

A Systematic Review of Literature on Effectiveness of Training in Emergency Risk Communication

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A Systematic Review of Literature on Effectiveness of Training in Emergency Risk Communication

Ann Neville Miller et al. J Health Commun. 2017 Jul.

Abstract

Although disaster preparedness training is regularly conducted for a range of health-related professions, little evidence-based guidance is available about how best to actually develop capacity in staff for conducting emergency risk communication. This article presents results of a systematic review undertaken to inform the development of World Health Organization guidelines for risk communication during public health and humanitarian emergencies. A total of 6,720 articles were screened, with 24 articles identified for final analysis. The majority of research studies identified were conducted in the United States, were either disaster general or focused on infectious disease outbreak, involved in-service training, and used uncontrolled quantitative or mixed method research designs. Synthesized findings suggest that risk communication training should include a focus on collaboration across agencies, training in working with media, and emphasis on designing messages for specific audience needs. However, certainty of findings was at best moderate due to lack of methodological rigor in most studies.

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