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How are Cochrane reviews on the application of digital technologies in health care or public health disseminated online? A cross-sectional study
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Karina Karolina De Santis
- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Department Prevention and Evaluation, Deutschland; Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen – LSC DiPH, Bremen, Deutschland
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Mathia Kirstein
- Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS, Department Prevention and Evaluation, Deutschland
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Christina Kien
- University for Continuing Education, Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation, Österreich
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Ursula Griebler
- University for Continuing Education, Department for Evidence-based Medicine and Evaluation, Österreich
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Tina Jahnel
- University of Bremen, Department of Health Services Research, Faculty 11 Human and Health Sciences, Bremen, Deutschland; Leibniz ScienceCampus Digital Public Health Bremen – LSC DiPH, Bremen, Deutschland
| Veröffentlicht: | 12. März 2024 |
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Background/research question: Evidence from Cochrane reviews needs to be disseminated to reach stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, policy makers and the general population. This study assessed how Cochrane reviews on the application of digital technologies in health care or public health were disseminated online.
Methods: This study analysed bibliographic data using a cross-sectional design [1]. We searched Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews up to May 2023 and selected Cochrane reviews based on the PICO criteria: (1) any population, (2) intervention or concept using any type of digital technology, (3) any or no comparison, and (4) any outcome in health care or public health. Dissemination was assessed based on freely available Altmetric score data that measure the attention towards academic articles by tracing their online mentions in different channels, including social media or policy papers. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics.
Results: Out of 170 records identified in the search, 100 Cochrane reviews, published between 2005–2023, were included. The population in the reviews included consumers (clients or patients in 85/100 reviews), healthcare professionals (16/100) or carers (7/100). The consumers were of any age or adults only (79/85) and from clinical populations (68/85). All reviews addressed interventions or concepts supported by digital technologies that were compared to digital or non-digital control conditions. The digital technologies were mobile (e.g., mobile phones in 21/100 reviews), non-mobile (e.g., computers in 9/100) or any type (79/100). The outcomes in all reviews focused on any health care (e.g., disease monitoring) or public health (e.g., healthy lifestyle promotion) domains. The Altmetric score in all reviews ranged between 1–553 (mean=48, SD=67) and most reviews (n=89) had Altmetric scores of 1–100. Three reviews with the highest Altmetric scores of >200 addressed topics relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic (improvement in vaccination rates, contact tracing technologies or social isolation among the elderly). The Cochrane reviews were mentioned in the social media (former Twitter, 99/100 or Facebook, 69/100), blogs (48/100), policy sources (40/100), news (33/100) or Wikipedia (30/100).
Conclusion: Social media are important dissemination channels for Cochrane reviews. Future research should investigate how the stakeholders interact with and use the information on Cochrane reviews from different dissemination channels online.
Competing interests: None
References
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- De Santis K, Kirstein M, Kien C, Griebler U, Jahnel T. Dissemination of Cochrane reviews on the application of digital technologies in health care and public health: A cross-sectional study (study protocol).. Open Science Framework; 2023 May 26. Available at: https://osf.io/mpw8u/
