Dime La VerDAD: Verifying and Disseminating Health Information
This study, called Dime La VerDAD (Tell Me the Truth), is looking at how community health workers can use social media and personal stories to share reliable health information about respiratory viruses like the flu and COVID-19. The goal is to help people make informed decisions about recommended vaccinations and protective strategies. Community health workers will receive a special curriculum to learn how to create engaging social media content. The study will measure if their followers adopt more protective strategies and how confident the health workers feel about using social media for health communication. You might be able to join if you are 18 or older, fluent in English or Spanish, work as a community health worker in certain areas, and use social media.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 1400 participants, divided into four groups, all receiving a science communication curriculum.
- What's involved
- Not specified in the trial record.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- The study will follow up on the uptake of respiratory virus protection strategies for two to four years, and on social media self-efficacy for one to three years.
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Dime La VerDAD: Verify, Debunk, and Disseminate
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
4 sites across 3 statesStudy leadership
- Marina DelRios, MD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · University of Chicago - Section of Emergency Medicine
Who to contact
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What this trial measures
- Uptake of respiratory virus protection strategies among Community health workers' social media followersYear 2 - Year 4
Community health workers social media followers' intent to use respiratory virus protection strategies. Members of community health workers' social media circles will be surveyed to understand the reach and effectiveness of various types of social media posts. Investigators will measure effectiveness by surveying the social circles of the community health workers six months after the implementation of the curriculum (see recruitment and retention plan), and after the completion of the campaign. Specific items will include which posts the social circle members remembered most and why. Investigators will also ask whether this changed their thinking about respiratory virus protection strategies and or the specific call to action that was put in the infographic.
- Community health workers Social Media Self-EfficacyYear 1 - Year 3
Compare Community health workers confidence with disseminating reliable information on social media before and after completing the science communication curriculum. 15-minute survey to assess their work-related social media communication self-efficacy. The baseline survey will also gather demographics, social determinants of health and baseline usage of Facebook and other social media (e.g., social media apps they use, the number of friends on each social media platform, the frequency of reading from and posting/sharing on each platform), and confidence and preparedness to disseminate reliable information in their communities regarding about respiratory virus protection strategies