Mim Ari, Julie L Oyler
A substance use disorder training curriculum for internal medicine residents using resident-empaneled patients
BMC medical education
health misinformation particularly prevalent covid19 pandemic hampers public health initiatives spanishspeaking communities san francisco bay area may especially affected due low digital health literacy skepticism towards science healthcare experts study aims develop checklist counter misinformation grounded community insights adopted multistage approach understanding barriers covid19 vaccine uptake spanishspeaking populations alameda san francisco counties initial work included key informant community interviews partnering communitybased organization cbo organized codesign workshops july 2022 develop practical tool identifying misinformation template analysis identified key themes actionable steps source evaluation content assessment developed spanishlanguage checklist formative interviews misinformation identified major obstacle vaccine uptake three codesign workshops 15 spanishspeaking women resulted 10step checklist tackling health misinformation participants highlighted need scrutinizing sources assessing messenger credibility cues visual content could instill fear checklist offers pragmatic approach source verification information assessment supplemented resources local cbos cocreated targeted checklist spanishspeaking communities identify counter health misinformation specialized tools essential populations susceptible misinformation enabling differentiate credible noncredible information