Effective health communication - a key factor in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic

doi:10.1016/j.pec.2020.03.027

Editorial

. 2020 May;103(5):873-876.

doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2020.03.027.

Effective health communication - a key factor in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic

Arnstein Finset¹, Hayden Bosworth², Phyllis Butow³, Pål Gulbrandsen⁴, Robert L Hulsman⁵, Arwen H Pieterse⁶, Richard Street⁷, Robin Tschoetschel⁸, Julia van Weert⁸

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¹ Patient Education and Counseling. Electronic address: arnstein.finset@medisin.uio.no.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
³ School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ Health Services ResearchUnit HØKH, Akershus University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁵ Dept. Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁶ Dept. of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁷ Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
⁸ Amsterdam School of Communication Research / ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

PMID: 32336348
PMCID: PMC7180027
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2020.03.027

Editorial

Effective health communication - a key factor in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic

Arnstein Finset et al. Patient Educ Couns. 2020 May.

. 2020 May;103(5):873-876.

doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2020.03.027.

Authors

Arnstein Finset¹, Hayden Bosworth², Phyllis Butow³, Pål Gulbrandsen⁴, Robert L Hulsman⁵, Arwen H Pieterse⁶, Richard Street⁷, Robin Tschoetschel⁸, Julia van Weert⁸

Affiliations

¹ Patient Education and Counseling. Electronic address: arnstein.finset@medisin.uio.no.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States.
³ School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ Health Services ResearchUnit HØKH, Akershus University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁵ Dept. Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁶ Dept. of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
⁷ Department of Communication, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States.
⁸ Amsterdam School of Communication Research / ASCoR, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

PMID: 32336348
PMCID: PMC7180027
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2020.03.027

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[1] COVID-19: fighting panic with information. Lancet. 2020;295:537. - PMC - PubMed

[2] COVID-19: fighting panic with information. Lancet. 2020;295:537. - PMC - PubMed

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[6] Lauer S.A., Grantz K.H., Bi Q., Jones F.K., Zheng Q., Meredith H.R., Azman A.S., Reich N.G., Lessler J. The Incubation Period of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application. Ann Intern Med. 2020;172 https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2762808/incubation-period-coronavirus... In press. - PMC - PubMed

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[8] van der Bles A.M., van der Linden S., Freeman A.L.J., Spiegelhalter D.J. The effects of communicating uncertainty on public trust in facts and numbers. PNAS Latest articles. 2020 doi: 10.1073/pnas.1913678117. In press. - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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