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

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.

Editorial

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

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

doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2020.03.027.

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.

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Barello S, Palamenghi L, Graffigna G. Barello S, et al. Patient Educ Couns. 2020 Oct;103(10):2200-2202. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2020.06.027. Epub 2020 Jun 24. Patient Educ Couns. 2020. PMID: 32631648 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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Street RL Jr, Finset A. Street RL Jr, et al. Patient Educ Couns. 2022 Feb;105(2):261-264. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2022.01.006. Patient Educ Couns. 2022. PMID: 35120714 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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