Steven J. Hoffman|Yasmeen Mansoor|Navneet Natt|Lathika Sritharan|Belluz Julia|Timothy Caulfield|Yoni Freedhoff|John N. Lavis|Arya M. Sharma
Celebrities’ impact on health-related knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and status outcomes: protocol for a systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression analysis
University of Ottawa|University of Ottawa|University of Ottawa|University of Ottawa|Voxiva (United States)|University of Alberta|Polytechnic University of Bari|Harvard Global Health Institute|Canadian Obesity Network|University of Alberta
celebrities highly influential people whose actions decisions watched often emulated wide audiences many celebrities used prominent social standing offer medical advice endorse health products trend expected increase however extent impact celebrities shaping publics healthrelated knowledge attitudes behaviors status unclear systematic review seeks answer following questions 1 healthrelated outcomes influenced celebrities 2 large impact celebrities actually healthrelated outcomes 3 circumstances celebrities produce either beneficial harmful impactsten databases searched including medline embase psycinfo pubmed cinahl communication complete sociological abstracts social sciences citation index journals scholars portal proquest dissertations theses ai two reviewers conducted title abstract screening fulltext screening identify primary studies employed empirical methods either quantitative qualitative examine celebrities impact healthrelated knowledge attitudes behaviors status outcomesthe results review contribute understanding celebrity influences design positive evidencebased celebrity health promotion activities addition findings help inform development media reporting guidelines pertaining celebrity health news provide guidance public health authorities whether respond work celebritiesprospero crd42015019268